early bicycle

It brought together those interested in early bicycles from a number of countries.

Early bicycles were an example of conspicuous consumption, being adopted by the fashionable elites.

Early bicycles had a similar problem.

Early Bicycle Ambassador programs began in Toronto in the late 1990s.

She was an early bicycle and motor car enthusiast and participated in automobile rallies.

Much like the earlier bicycle program, participants in this new program were encouraged to develop not only an academic or vocational skill, but also leadership skills.

A Penny Farthing is the English name for the early bicycles that had different-sized wheels.

On warm summer days, he would take scores into the countryside to study them (he was a passionate and adventurous early bicycle from the age of 5).

Largely self-taught, he studied botany, learned several foreign languages, constructed a 'velocipede' or early bicycle, and experimented with the production of coal gas.

They range from early bicycles to the slightly zippier Thrust SSC, the fastest land vehicle ever.

Clifford Shand was a local businessman and early bicycle enthusiast (part of the bicycle craze of the 1890s).

The earliest bicycles with pedals such as the boneshaker were fitted with a spoon brake which pressed onto the rear wheel.

The earliest bicycle and motor-car Carbide lamps were powered by acetylene gas, produced by combining calcium carbide with water.

One, the scooter-like dandy horse or celerifere of the French Comte de Sivrac, dating to 1790, was long cited as the earliest bicycle.

Novels celebrating the political effects of motorization included Free Air by Sinclair Lewis, which followed in the tracks of earlier bicycle touring novels.

Grace and the puppies were still asleep and I was standing in the kitchen tugging on Lycra, hoping to steal an early bicycle ride, when the phone rang.

In 1967 collectors and restorers of penny-farthings (and other early bicycles) founded the Wheelmen, a non-profit organization "dedicated to keeping alive the heritage of American cycling".

As with many consumer products, early bicycles were purchased solely for their usefulness or fashionableness and discarded as they wore out or were replaced by newer models.

Early bicycles of this style were known as safety bicycles because they were noted for, and marketed as, being safer than the high wheelers they were replacing.

Kelham Island Industrial Museum includes machines, large and small, as well as some unusual objects, like a silver plate, early bicycle made for the Tsar of Russia in 1879.

At once an auto museum and an American history exhibit, the Ford museum is a fascinating window on American inventions from early bicycles and trains to prototypes of future cars.

The collection includes over 400 years' worth of various modes of land transport that range from steam driven vehicles, trains, trams and trolley buses, to animal drawn carriages, early bicycles and cars.

Since the early days of the automobile, the American Motor League promoted the making of more and better cars, and the American Automobile Association joined the good roads movement begun during the earlier bicycle craze.

He and his crew would regularly meet "unsung people" who "took us to a little country road, or who would happen to have the best collection of early bicycles in their basements and were willing to loan them to us for a segment."

Ritchie, Andrew, author of Major Taylor: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World and Quest for Speed: A History of Early Bicycle Racing 1868-1903, both published by Van der Plas Publications (not the inventor of the Brompton Bicycle)