Early machines

Cycling was a fringe pursuit for most of the period since the first crude form of bicycle, the Draisienne or dandy-horse or hobby-horse, appeared in Ireland in the summer of 1819. For a few months in this year Irish ‘dandies’, like their British and French counterparts, propelled these pedal-less machines around fashionable parks until the ... Read more

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