The first bicycles and bicycle-like machines, from the hobby horse of 1817 to the velocipede, the high-wheel penny-farthing and the safety bicycle that made cycling an everyday habit. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the machine a velocipede, hobby horse, high wheel or early bicycle. It excludes modern bicycles. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Safety Bicycle
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A safety bicycle (or simply a safety) is a type of bicycle that became very popular in the late 1880s as an alternative to the penny-farthing (also known as an "ordinary" or "high wheeler") and is now the most common type of bicycle.
Wikipedia: Penny-farthing
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The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, is an early type of bicycle distinguished by its large front wheel and comparatively small back wheel.
Velocipede, Wikipedia
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A velocipede (, veh-LOSS-ih-PEED) is a human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels.
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A velocipede (, veh-LOSS-ih-PEED) is a human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels.
View the SourcePedersen bicycle, Wikipedia
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The Pedersen bicycle, also called the Dursley Pedersen bicycle is a bicycle that was developed by Danish inventor Mikael Pedersen and produced in the English town of Dursley.
Dandy horse, Wikipedia
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The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine ('running machine' in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, or swiftwalker, is a human-powered vehicle that, as the first two-wheeled vehicle, is regarded as the first bicy
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