Bicycles
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Bicycles
Today?s bicycles look quite different easier?s versions one early two wheeled vechicle called a hobby horse,had a wooden frame. Invented in Europe abut 1816,hobby horses had no padels,riders rpopelled then by pushing against the ground with their feet. About 1840 a scotish blacksmith developed a Bicycle with pedals attached tos een wheel by metal rods. This idea did not catch on. Other inventors began to experiment with putting pedals an front wheel gradually the front wheels of bicyles became and the rear wheel became smallen. A large front wheel was designed to increase the bikers speed the bigger the front wheel was, the farther-and farter-one turn of thepedal wouold make the bike go. Some of the bicycle had front wheel five feet(152cm)high people aften were injured by falling of there tall bikes. In 1850s inventors in England inventors in England deristed of bicycle with two smaller wheel of nearly equal size the rider sat between the wheel pumpingpedals attached to the rear wheel by a chain. This bicycle became known as the safety bike because it was safer to ride than the kind with a large from wheel. The safety bike set the pattern for modern bicycle.
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