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Understanding Evil & How the Bicycle Transformed the World

Something You Should Know

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The Early Days of the Bicycle

In 18 17, a german minor nobleman named karl von dreiss invented the first bicycle. It was a vehicle that had two wheels lined up in a straight line and didn't have pedals or a chain drive. So at what point did we get something that is more like the modern bicycle? Only in the mid 18 eighties when we gotwhat was then called the safety b safety bike,. which was so called because it wasn't as dangerous as these earlier bikes.

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