Balance bike
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A balance bike is a bicycle without pedals that learners propel by pushing their feet against the ground. By allowing children to focus on developing their sense of balance and coordination before int
A wooden balance bike
A dandy horse (built c. 1820)
Toddler on metal balance bike
Dandy horse
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The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine, then a vélocipède or draisienne, and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, or swiftwalker, is a human-powered vehicl
Balance bike
…balance bikes enable independent riding more quickly than training wheels. Balance bikes descend from the earliest two-wheeled bicycle, a Laufmaschine or dandy horse, invented by Karl Drais in 1817. These early balance bikes consisted of a simple wooden frame with two wheels and no pedals, and were designed for adult…
Original Laufmaschine' of 1817 made to measure.
Johnson’s Ladies’ Walking Machine, sold in London 1818–1819
The remaining extant Johnson’s Ladies’ Walking Machine, in the Science Museum, London