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Museum Admission
Dogs £Free
Carers £Free
groups £groups are very welcome, flexible days/hours may be available , please contact us for details
Opening Times
10am-4pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays / ,Fridays 10am-2pm Saturdays iup until end October 10am-2pm
The museum is normally open Tuesdays, Wednesdays 10am-4pm and Fridays 10am-2pm throughout the year ( excluding between Christmas - New Year )
Also opening 10am-2pm on Saturdays in September and October
NO PREBOOKING REQUIRED UNLESS IN LARGE GROUP
Call 01938 552817 if urgent , otherwise contact the curators by email via the get in touch section on Contact heading
National Cycle Museum
The Automobile Palace
Temple Street
Llandrindod Wells
Powys - Mid Wales
LD1 5DL
Tel: 01597 825531
 
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The Safety
The final breakthrough came with the invention and development of the safety bicycle.
The main features of the safety bicycle were a chain drive from the pedals and cranks to the rear wheel and direct steering of the front wheel, with both wheels of approximately the same size.One of the most prominent manufacturers was The Coventry Machinist Company .
For a short period at the end of the 1880s and early 1890s these bicycles were built with the same solid tyres as had been used for the ordinary. In 1888 John Boyd Dunlop developed the pneumatic tyre and the modern bicycle rapidly became the most common form of human powered transport.
From the 1890s onward there have been few fundamental developments of the bicycle. Reductions in component weight, effective braking, multiple gearing and the introduction of sprung suspension have all contributed to the wider acceptance and use of the machine, but the bicycle of the twenty-first century has not changed in concept from the machine invented and developed by John Kemp Starley and others in the mid 1880s.
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