Well I'm almost vindicated.
Martin
On Jun 3, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Ross Orr wrote:
>
>> 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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