>I think that the "bone-shaker" was another sort of early bicycle: it
>had 2 wheels of the same diameter and no pedals. The rider had to
>use his feet to get it moving ...
Not to prolong an OT thread :-) but, I just
finished "Bicycle: the History" by David V.
Herlihy--excellent IMO.
"Boneshaker" referred more to an early
transitional bike, with pedals directly driving
the front wheel, but with unforgiving
carriage-style wheels: wood spokes, no rubber
tires. This was followed later by the
rubber-tired high wheeler, aka penny farthing.
The very earliest pedal-less hobby horse,
sometimes called the Draisenne after an early
proponent, died out fairly quickly. . .
--Ross
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" Is it not absurd, is it not a disgrace to the inventive age we live in,
to see a man obliged to employ, in order to get through the street,
a great vehicle, almost as large as a house? So let us have
the velocipedes. " -- New York Times article reporting on a new
French invention, the pedal bicycle, 22 August 1867
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