The first bicycle did not appear until nearly 400 years later, when a two-wheeled device known as the velocipede first appeared in Europe. The velocipedewas invented b… See more

Thanks to increasing social mobility and wealth from its global empire, Britain took the lead of … See more

From the 1880s onward, manufacturing technology improved even further and allowed factories to mass-produce bicycles at lower costs. At the same time, wages across Eur… See more

Many of the different types of bikesthat we now know and use date to the early 20thcentury as the pace of technological and design improvements quickened. The first recumb… See more