Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Some Victorian bicycles

The forerunner of the bicycle was invented by Baron Karl von Drais in 1817 and you basically run on it. You can see an example here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_horse It was just marvelous :) It makes the bicycles in the photos below look really advanced.

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