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Museum Admission
Adults: £5.00.
Senior Citizens:/Students £4.00
Children 4-16: £2.00
Dogs £Free
Carers £Free
groups £groups are very welcome, flexible days/hours may be available , please contact us for details
We regret we cannot accept debit or credit cards.
Opening Times
Tuesdays 10am-5.30pm, Wednesdays and Fridays 10am-4pm
Please ring the museum and speak to a member of staff if planning to visit on a Friday pm or if weather is poor
The museum is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year ( excluding between Christmas - New Year )
Call the museum on 01597 825531 on open days, otherwise contact the curators by email on curator@cyclemuseum.org.uk
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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