Bicycle
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A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A b
The most popular bicycle model—and most popular vehicle of any kind in the world—is the Chinese Flying Pigeon, with about 500 million produced.
1886 Swift Safety Bicycle
Women on bicycles on unpaved road, US, late 19th century
A penny-farthing or ordinary bicycle in the Škoda Auto museum in the Czech Republic
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
Bicycle
…include "bike", "pushbike", "pedal cycle", or "cycle". In Unicode, the code point for "bicycle" is U+1F6B2. The entity 🚲 in HTML produces 🚲. The "dandy horse", also called Draisienne or Laufmaschine ("running machine"), was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented…
Wooden dandy horse (around 1820), a patent-infringing copy of the first two-wheeler
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