Sunday, March 27, 2011

Bicycle History


The ancestors of the bike is expected to come from France. According to newspaper history, the country has been since the beginning of the 18th century known two-wheeled transportation called Velocipede. Over the years, Velocipede is the only term that refers to the results of two-wheel vehicle design. Its construction was not familiar with wood and iron are of the model is still primitive.

Was a German named Baron von Drais Karls Sauerbronn notable as one falsifies Velocipede. In 1818, von Sauerbronn making two-wheeled transport to support the work efficiency.

As the chief forester Baden, he does need high mobility transport. However, the model still seems ambiguous, between bicycles and horse carriages. So that people dub the Baron's creation as a dandy horse.





Then in 1839, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a blacksmith born in Scotland, made ​​"machine" specifically for the bike. Certainly not a machine like those of motorcycles, but more like driving a crank is turned, passing up and down movement of the foot pedal. MacMillan had been "brave" was the crank connecting rod steering (handlebars simple).





While noting efforts to improve the encyclopedia Britannica.com French inventor Ernest Michaux in 1855, by making ballast crank up the pace bike more stable. The more perfect after the Frenchman, Pierre Lallement (1865) reinforce wheels by adding an iron circle around it (now known as the rim or wheel). Lallement also introduced a bike with the front wheel larger than the rear wheels.





But the most significant advances occurred during steelmaking technologies cavities are found, following a good growing iron grafting techniques, as well as the discovery of tire rubber as a raw material. However, the factor of safety and comfort remain unsolved. Because the technology suspension (per and so on) has not been found, wobble and shake frequently make their riders back pain. Half-kidding, dubbed the bike as boneshaker Lallement (bone shakers).



So do not be surprised if in the era of the 1880's, three-wheel bikes that are considered safer for women and men whose legs were too short for the conventional pedaling became so popular. Trend two-wheel bike again after the establishment of a worldwide first bicycle factory in Coventry, England in 1885. The factory set up was James Starley increasingly find momentum after 1888, John Dunlop discovered tire technology wind. The pace of the bike was no longer shaking.

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