Track the Development of Cycling Innovations, new trends in cycling clothing and the liberation cycling can bring, about sports bikes, stunt bikes and how bicycles helped the war effort and unusuals frames...
Cycle Clothing
In the 1880s, cycling became a fad of major proportions in both the United States and Europe. By the 1890s...
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Birth of Cycling
The first machine use the principles of a bicycle was invented and patented in 1817 in Mannheim, Germany by Karl von Drais...
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Racing Bicycles
The combination of safety bicycles with pneumatic tyres and geared drive by chainwheels enabled professional cycle racing...
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Mountain Bikes
Mountain bikes became popular in the 1970s. Their construction differs from a typical bicycle in that many include suspension...
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Circus / Stunt Bicycles
Bicycles have been specially adapted for all sorts of use since their inception, including high - wire circus and...
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Bicycles at War
During World War I cycle-mounted infantry, messengers and ambulance carriers were extensively used by all combatants...
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Olympic and World Records
Cycling events have been contested in every Summer Olympics programme since the first Modern Olympic Games of 1896...
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Lightweight Frame Builders
During the mid -1930s the introduction of high-tensile,lightweight steel tubing in the UK enabled cycle frame makers to produce machines...
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Unusual Frame Designs
The design of the safety bicycle very quickly became established using the ‘diamond’ frame layout or its variant...
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New Designs
In recent years we have seen the increased use of new materials, (titanium, carbon fibre, etc.) in specialist bicycle construction...
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Cycling Memories
Read some of the stories of peoples fondest memories experienced on the Bicycle. My sister Geraldine was the eldest of six...
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