http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: 'Britain's oldest bike found' en Mon, 18 May 2026 02:14:01 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18541#post-273252 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 21:54:42 +0000 LivM 273252@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's a balance bike. My 3yo would like a go please :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18541#post-273229 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:08:23 +0000 ih 273229@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wouldn't quibble it's a bike but I think it bears the same relationship to bicycles as Neanderthals do to modern humans i.e. A dead end.</p> <p>Interestingly this week I saw a very good exhibition in Walthamstow (NE London) about JK Starley at the Vestry House Museum. It was claimed that Starley "invented" the modern bicycle in 1885. There's some truth in that as the example on show was definitely a bicycle. My own word would have been "developed" rather than "invented", but he was a local boy, so poetic licence? </p> <p><a href="http://vestryhousemuseum.org.uk/whats-on/no-ordinary-bicycle-john-kemp-starley-two-wheeled-revolution/" rel="nofollow">http://vestryhousemuseum.org.uk/whats-on/no-ordinary-bicycle-john-kemp-starley-two-wheeled-revolution/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18541#post-273228 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:07:47 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd say a bicycle has to have a driven wheel, but what do I know? It's a lovely dandy-horse to me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18541#post-273216 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:03:20 +0000 SRD 273216@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i thought the same thing when I clicked on the link, but it's got two wheels, if not chain drive or pedals. given etymology of 'bicycle', I'm inclined to say that 2 wheels is the determining feature? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18541#post-273215 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:31:19 +0000 wee folding bike 273215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>But it's not. bike, it's a drasiene. It even says so in the story. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18541#post-273212 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 11:21:36 +0000 Rosie 273212@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@SRD - that's totally amazing. A year or so after the Drasine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18541#post-273211 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 11:19:51 +0000 SRD 273211@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"The 199-year-old bike was originally made by Denis Johnson who registered a patent for the bike in 1818.</p> <p>Johnson made 320 of the machines in 1819 with only 12 known to be in existence today.</p> <p>It is believed by Mr Stockdale that this barn find is the oldest of the dozen as Johnston would number his bikes, but this particular machine was made pre-numbering strongly suggesting it was one of the first to be built."</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/20/britains-oldest-bike-199-year-old-bicycle-found-disused-barn/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/20/britains-oldest-bike-199-year-old-bicycle-found-disused-barn/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw</a> </p>