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Museum Admission
Dogs £Free
Carers £Free
groups £groups of maximum of 4 , during covid restrictions , are very welcome, flexible days/hours may be available , please contact us for details

Opening Times
CLOSED From 4th December until allowed to reopen by Welsh ASsembly
NO PREBOOKING REQUIRED BUT GROUP SIZES NEED TO COMPLY WITH COVID REGULATIONS
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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Velocipede / Boneshaker
No further technical progress was made in bicycle design until the 1860s, when the Michaux family, makers of components for the carriages in Paris, modified the hobby horse by attaching cranks and pedals to the front, steered wheel, allowing the machine to be propelled with the rider’s feet ‘off the ground’. This machine was extremely successful and large numbers of Velocipedes were manufactured in continental Europe, Great Britain and in America.
The limitation of the velocipede was its relatively low gearing, so that each revolution of the pedals only achieved a single revolution of the driven wheel, typically of about 1m. diameter, giving a development of 3.14m. (or 40” English gearing measurement). Efforts to increase the gearing by increasing the wheel diameter were limited by the materials used.
Velocipede wheels were manufactured from ash or hickory wood with a metal rim, as for a carriage wheel. This type of wheel could only be increased to about 1.25 m. before it became not strong enough or too heavy for its purpose. Machines of this type are called ‘transitional bicycles’ and very few have survived because of the fragility of the driven wheel.
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