History of the bicycle
Sunday, December 16th, 2007History of the bicycle
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia• Interested in contributing to Wikipedia? •Vehicles for human transport that have two-wheels and require balancing by the rider have a long history. The earliest confirmed example dates back to the early 19th century, although the term bicycle was coined in France in the 1860s.Knowledge of the bicycle’s history has languished during the period of its chief rival, the automobile. One of the relatively recent efforts to improve that historical record is the annual International Cycling History Conference (ICHC), the first of which took place in Glasgow, Scotland in 1990.[1]
A streak cyclist, or a streak athlete for that matter, is someone who rides every day trying to string together as many consecutive days of riding as possible. And, even in cycling’s earliest days (photo) it wasn’t uncommon for riders to track their mileage trying to better their peers or top their previous year’s effort, witness Karl Kron’s book published in 1887, Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle (a