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The Safety Bicycle

99% Invisible

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The Evolution of the Bike

The bone shaker was a bicycle with pedals attached directly to the front wheel of the bike. The reason you needed this setup was because it supplied a gearing effect for every rotation of the pedal. Mark Twain famously wrote about his attempts to learn to ride a bone shaker.

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