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On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City

by Evan Friss · 6 May 2019 · 314pp · 85,637 words

… New Yorkers rode for longer and longer with each revival. Ever since the 1870s, whether velocipedes, high-wheelers with their almost comically oversized front wheels, safety bicycles, tricycles, cruisers, ten-speeds, fixed-gears, BMX bikes, Citi Bikes, or e-bikes, there have always been bicycles in New York. The question about where

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did the bicycle.3 By the time he was eighteen, the disproportioned two-wheelers had largely disappeared. In their stead, and in much higher numbers, “safety” bicycles, with two equal-sized wheels, a diamond frame, and pneumatic tires, exploded in popularity. Although it typically had only one gear and no brakes, the

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safety bicycle was heralded as a technological marvel—deservedly so, considering that the bicycles New Yorkers ride today look quite similar. Easier and safer to ride, deemed

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more appropriate for women (because they were easier and safer to ride), and much cheaper than the high-wheelers, safety bicycles enchanted New Yorkers and Americans at large.4 Hyde’s first ride on a safety did not go well: “I thought it was an easy

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. Arthur P.S. Hyde Diaries, 1892–1896, vol. I, 39–41, New-York Historical Society, New York. 4. For more on the development of the safety bicycle, see Herlihy, Bicycle, 225–54; Tony Hadland and Hans-Erhard Lessing, Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014), chapter 5. 5. Hyde

Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett · 27 Aug 2018 · 230pp · 71,834 words

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look at the simple machine that inspired it at the turn of the twentieth century: the safety bicycle. Had it not been for widespread, nationwide adoption starting in the 1890s, and the central social role the safety bicycle played over the next 125 years, Dutch cities would probably resemble their neighbors in Western Europe

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it today is a complete copy of the English-designed standard bicycle.” Invented by John Kemp Starley in Coventry, England, in 1888, the standard—or safety—bicycle gained tremendous popularity throughout the early 1900s across Europe, including the Netherlands, where its simplicity was ideally suited to the Dutch personality: nothing too fussy

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(or sometimes tricycle) with a large wooden box attached to the front, originally designed for hauling goods from A to B. Much like the original safety bicycle, which would later become the visual embodiment of Dutch cycle culture, the origins of the bakfiets lie across the North Sea in industrial England. In

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, John Kemp Starley invented the Coventry Rotary, one of the first chain-drive tricycles, opening up the possibilities for carrying cargo a decade before the safety bicycle hit the streets. Deemed less cumbersome than a horse-and-carriage, these freight trikes were perfect for tradesmen transporting bread, milk, and mail—pretty much

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

by Daniel Knowles · 27 Mar 2023 · 278pp · 91,332 words

are attending to the proud young Double-Six Daimlers.” The automobile industry had grown out of the bicycle industry. One of the first modern-style safety bicycles, invented by Henry John Lawson in 1876, was produced in Coventry. On the back of its success, Lawson went on to try to monopolize the

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through the history of the first “hobby horse” bicycle devised in Germany in 1817, and leading through to the invention of Henry John Lawson’s safety bicycle in Coventry in the 1870s. The key conclusion of Wilson’s piece, however, is this: “When one compares the energy consumed in moving a certain

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One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words

from riding the high-wheeler, or “ordinary,” bicycle (the one with the big front wheel) as well as most models manufactured prior to the modern “safety” bicycle, which is essentially the bicycle as we know it today.30 “Ordinaries” were incredibly difficult to operate and both clothing and behavioral restrictions made it

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a male chaperon.32 Women could thus operate tricycles without dramatically challenging the dominant social norms of the period. Following the mass production of the safety bicycle in the 1890s, many women took up cycling and found in it a renewed sense of freedom and mobility. in the United States, the bicycle

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, or implicitly, promoted bike-riding women in the service of bicycle sales. Female cycling, in other words, had to be made “socially acceptable to sell safety bicycles to a larger market.”47 Bicycling, Garvey argues, was widely used as the centerpiece of magazine fiction that helped to diffuse the potentially disruptive political

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Histories of Leisure, ed. rudy Koshar (new york: Berg, 2002), 133. Ebert, “Cycling towards the nation,” 352. Henri Desgranges, “a Frenchman’s views on the Safety Bicycle as it now is and its probable Future,” Scientific American 72, no. 2 (1895): 22. Emphasis is original. Sylvester Baxter also claims that a “cool

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-street safety was emphasized well beyond the 1930s. For example, see When You Are a Pedestrian (progressive pictures, 1948). See You and Your Bicycle; Bicycle Safety; Bicycle Clown; and One Got Fat. as a case in point, when a new york City teacher and activist named Eric ng was killed while riding

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Bike Snob

by BikeSnobNYC · 5 May 2010 · 155pp · 51,258 words

go by the name of “PennyFarthingSnobNYC.” No, I’m not talking about Grover Cleveland’s inauguration. I’m talking about the invention of the “safety bicycle.” The safety bicycle was invented by John Kemp Starley, who just happened to be James Starley’s nephew, and the name of the bike came from the fact

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you no longer had to perch yourself atop that giant front wheel. The safety bicycle used a chain drive, and the size of the cogs determined the speed of the bicycle. This meant that you could not only use wheels

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to ride. It handled well. And once Dunlop started making pneumatic tires a few years later, it rode smoothly too. Everything came together. Essentially, the safety bicycle with pneumatic tires is the same thing we’re all riding today. Sure, our bikes are a lot more refined now, but the idea is

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the same. For the most part, by 1887 they’d nailed it. Once the safety bicycle “dropped,” cycling absolutely exploded. It was the thing to do. Most cyclists, and even many non-cyclists, are aware that professional cycling was once an

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through Valley Stream, our cycling Bethlehem, along the way. So I took off my tweed reading suit, donned my tweed cycling suit, lubed up my safety bicycle, and off I went. To reach the beach at Far Rockaway, all routes pass through Jamaica. The various ways of reaching Jamaica were fully given

Cyclopedia

by William Fotheringham · 22 Sep 2011 · 428pp · 117,419 words

MACMILLAN and the Frenchman Alexandre Lefebvre both produced rear-wheel-driven machines that never became popular; instead the HIGH-WHEELER took over before the first SAFETY BICYCLES were produced in the 1880s, with the definitive pattern set by JAMES STARLEY’s Rover in 1885. Radical variations on this basic bike design, truly

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London; the craze spread to America, pushed by Johnson, but eventually died out. (SEE BONESHAKER FOR THE NEXT STAGE IN CYCLE DEVELOPMENT; HIGH-WHEELER AND SAFETY BICYCLE FOR LATER VARIANTS ; BICYCLE FOR A SUMMARY OF THE MACHINE’S DEVELOPMENT; LEONARDO DA VINCI FOR THE DEBATE OVER A POSSIBLE EARLY MACHINE) DRUGS Cycle

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Biggest stars: Mark Cavendish, Chris Hoy First Tour stage win: Brian Robinson, Brest, 1957 Tour overall wins to 2010: none Britain has given cycling: the SAFETY BICYCLE, time-trialling, aggregation of marginal gains, a briefly rejuvenated HOUR RECORD, the best bunch sprinter in the world Further reading/viewing: This Island Race, Les

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the same size—and had a heyday that lasted a quarter of a century, in which cycling became almost universal. It was superseded by the SAFETY BICYCLE. The high-wheeler had a major advantage: if handled well the huge front wheel could absorb the ruts and potholes of poorly made 19th century

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, Dr. Alex, CBE (b. England, 1920) Designer who was the first man to make a fundamental change to cycle design since the invention of the SAFETY BICYCLE, when he launched a small-wheeled machine with full suspension in 1962. From a swinging ’60s novelty to go with miniskirts and beehive hairdos, the

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worldwide, and a TOUR DE FRANCE winner. The company began in 1886 on Raleigh Street in Nottingham, England, in a small workshop that made three safety bicycles a week; local lawyer Frank Bowden bought the operation and founded the Raleigh Cycle Company in 1888. One of Raleigh’s earliest stars was the

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male cyclists, who should not have to resort to the remedies recommended by TOM SIMPSON: ice water baths or cocaine lotions to deaden the nerves. SAFETY BICYCLES A type of bike born of a spate of inventions in the 1870s and 1880s as designers attempted to improve on the HIGH-WHEELER by

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making the bike more stable and introducing rear-wheel drive. The definitive safety bicycle was produced in 1885 with the launch of the Rover designed by JAMES STARLEY. Starley’s third model for the Rover had the diamond frame

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handlebars. John Kemp Starley worked with his uncle making Ariel cycles before founding his own company making tricycles that were branded Rover from 1883. Their “safety” bicycle appeared in 1885; the third variant had a diamond frame, rear-wheel chain drive, and two wheels virtually the same size, establishing the template for

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steering wheel at the front and two driving wheels at the back, began to appear in the mid-1880s, at the same time as the SAFETY BICYCLE. Early examples were the Humber Cripper—named after a professional racer, Robert Cripps—and the curiously named Psycho from Starley. The stability of the tricycle

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: the Tour de France has entered public consciousness and LANCE ARMSTRONG has become a national celebrity. In the HEROIC ERA following the invention of the safety bicycle, cycle racing was as popular in the United States as in Europe, if not more so. There were 600 professionals competing in track races at

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could be easily transported overseas. There were early proposals to put together fighting battalions mounted on HIGH-WHEELERS, but it was the advent of the SAFETY BICYCLE in the late 1880s that led to the formation of bicycle detachments. The 26th Middlesex (Cyclist) Volunteer Rifle Corps, formed in 1888, was the first

How Cycling Can Save the World

by Peter Walker · 3 Apr 2017 · 231pp · 69,673 words

she is developing her better mind.” This was part of a wider social revolution that followed the invention of the first modern-looking bike, the “safety bicycle,” in the late 1880s. With its ease of mounting and pneumatic tires, it was far more practical than the penny farthing, and the

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safety bicycle became hugely popular in a number of countries—especially for countryside rides along routes as yet unbothered by motor traffic. The British biologist Professor Steve

Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism

by Mikael Colville-Andersen · 28 Mar 2018 · 293pp · 90,714 words

has positively transformed society as quickly and effectively as the bicycle did. Let’s look at some historical marketing lessons. It was the so-called safety bicycle, featuring the diamond frame, that pushed the bicycle from being a subcultural toy for bored rich boys to becoming a mainstream form of transport. Before

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inventors and designers were working on an improvement to the penny-farthing, but the first mass-produced safety bicycle was the Rover, invented by John Kemp Starley in the United Kingdom in 1885. Calling it a “safety bicycle” was the first step in marketing the product to society at large, since the penny-farthing

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, for example, that the Polish word for bicycle, rower, is a direct derivative of the name Rover.) By a fortunate coincidence, the invention of the safety bicycle coincided with the perfection of the technique required for the art of lithography, which afforded exciting possibilities in both art and marketing. Artists everywhere desperately

Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work

by Iain Gately · 6 Nov 2014 · 352pp · 104,411 words

upward trend in British commuting in the first twenty years of the twentieth century. It had begun in the 1880s, after the invention of the ‘safety bicycle’, the first mass-produced example of which was John Kemp Starley’s Rover. The Rover had wheels of almost equal size, springs under its seat

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stabilizer. High-wheelers, as they were also known, were unstable, hard to mount and dismount, and dangerous to ride. Indeed, before the appearance of the safety bicycle, cycling was considered an adventure sport rather than a practical form of personal transportation, and the daring young men who practised it borrowed slang from

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-makers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles. *5 Their archetype is the Range Rover, built by the corporate descendant of the manufacturers of the revolutionary safety bicycle. *6 A slightly lighter and marginally more fuel-efficient model than the H1. *7 Sidhu’s conviction was later ‘stayed’ by the Indian Supreme Court

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words

rider, but it could be hard to control and was too high for the rider’s legs to reach the ground. The invention of the safety bicycle with two tires of similar size and pedals connected to a chain drive—effectively the same style of bicycle in use today —led to a

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mobility, another mode of transportation had its own revolutionary effect on the way people moved about. In 1885, John Kemp Starley invented the Rover: a safety bicycle with two wheels of similar size that was much easier to ride than the models that had come before it. When it was fitted with