The history of the bicycle | DW English

[@RealStealthyNinja]

Penny Farthings aren't just museum pieces. They still race them, though they're still uncommon of course.

[@DavidFraser007]

You forgot to mention Kirkpatrick MacMillan who invented the first pedal driven bicycle in 1842. It used a rod system that dove the rear wheel.

[@pinkipromise]

03:00 blinker fluid

[@xmorsln792]

It took 200 years to make equal size of wheel lol

[@tomchii]

Not only museum pieces

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

Yeah you'll find at least one brave soul in each major city riding one of those crazy things 😂

[@princessazula7676]

I thought this would be directed by Ken Burns 🤣🤣 ifykyk

[@harveysp5899]

❤

[@justintuccimusic]

2:40

[@Jabberstax]

Funny how you don't give credit to Great Britain for the invention of pedal driven bicycle.

[@goddessluna2020]

No one can know everything unfortunately, thank you for mentioning this.

[@CoLdBLaDe]

Imagine an electric bike today that ran on piss lol that would be alot cheaper than buying a battery!

[@R3v0lVç40]

quem ta aqui pela atividade do professor james?

[@ihsanbajwa3974]

بائیسکل Karl von Dais نے ایجاد کیا تھا۔۔۔۔۔کیا یہ معلومات درست ہیں؟؟؟

[@laco9838]

hello

[@standardperson3189]

Hey

[@laco9838]

@@standardperson3189 thankyou for replying, you made my day :)

[@standardperson3189]

@@laco9838 np

[@zelphx]

They were the "precursors" to MOTORCYCLES... NOT "E-Bikes".

[@gnosis2871]

They were the precursors to both.

[@Apis4]

They were precursors to neither. DW got it wrong, that sim-le. The first 'electric motor cycle' patent was issued in 1895, and in that year, the first production motorcycle, The Wolfmuller and Hillerbrand, had already been on the market a year. The bikes pictured here were all from around the First World War era. Thus, precursors to nothing.

[@Holeyguagaamoley]

It’s too bad that DW ruin this story by being so nationalistic as to simply omit uk invention of pedal bicycle completely , are all their reports so wrong? You don’t see us denying Karl Benz and the motorcar....come on DW , credit where due please!

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

1. German broadcast 2. Who gives a d*mn about the UK

[@shomshomni2314]

@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 You do, that's why you commented..

[@Vss7788]

Wow, so we had literally nothing before the 1800s... Millions of years of not much.

[@fritzdeuces]

Forget millions of years... trillions of people

[@michaelrck]

Sorry! But the first bicycle was invented by a Scottish Farmer in Dumfriesshire in the late 1700s

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

I still give the German the full credit.

[@veryspicyspidy9004]

Source?

[@laurynmiley437]

bikes ewww i like walking

[@thompsonlensman8768]

Then why are you here?

[@da.snzzzz7120]

Give your mother her phone back

[@schechter01]

So do it. Some people enjoy being foot-sloggers instead of going places more quickly & stylishly.

[@biker944]

pedal

[@biker944]

I love ball bearings