Two Hundred Years of Bicycles

by Jim Murphy

Traces the history of bicycles from the French "celerifere" of 1791, through the nineteenth-century velocipede, hobby horse, boneshaker, and high-wheeler, to the modern racing bicycle and HPV.

60 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1983

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Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Being a library user I praise the one little public library in our consortium that didn’t weed this informative book. There were no other bike histories in the online catalog. It’s juvenile literature but trust Jim Murphy to write nonfiction that kids as well as adults enjoy.
Published in 1983, it follows the very first bicycle-making attempts to human powered vehicles, with talk of the IHPVA. IHPVA is still working on perfecting aerodynamic human powered vehicles. Check YouTube.
Thanks, Jim. You answered my 1800s bike questions.