Bicyclette
The Bicyclette is an English bicycle with a cross frame and chain drive on the rear wheel, which was developed by Harry John Lawson in 1879. The Bicyclette is considered the first safety bike and the forerunner of the modern bicycle. With the large front wheel and the small rear wheel, the principle of the high wheel is still recognizable, the chain drive on the rear wheel was new and revolutionary. The “unnecessarily large front wheel” meant that Lawson had to develop a “complicated parallelogram steering” that could not lead to the success of this bike. Only years later, with the Rover models from John Kemp Starley , did the safety low wheel become a success.
literature
- Arthur Judson Palmer: Riding High. Vision Press London, 1958.
- Max JB Rauck, Gerd Volke, Felix R. Paturi: By bike through two centuries. The bicycle and its history. 4th edition. AT Verlag, Aarau et al. 1988, ISBN 3-85502-038-8 .
- Andrew Ritchie: King of the Road. Wildwood House, London 1975, ISBN 0-913668-42-7 .