Bicycle history

The history of bicycles began in Europe. Around the year 1790, a successful first bike was built in the UK. Embryo of this bike is named Hobby Horses and Celeriferes.

 Both do not have a mechanism for today's bike, steering rod and pedal system. That there are only two wheels on a wooden frame. You can imagine how awkward and large display both bikes earlier. Even so, they simply help people - in those days - to run. Phenomenal discovery in the story of the past created a bike thanks to Baron Karl von Drais.

Von Drais registered as students of mathematics and mechanics in Heidelberg, Germany managed to make an important breakthrough, which proved to be a foundation stone of the development of the next cycle. By Von Drais, Hobby Horse was modified to have a steering mechanism on the front wheels. By taking the energy of motion of both legs, Von Drais able to glide faster time around the garden. He himself calls this vehicle with the name, Draisienne. The news itself was published in local newspapers Germany in 1817.

Creation process is then performed Kirkpatrick Macmillan. In 1839, he added that connects the drive shaft between the rear wheels with front tires Draisienne. To run it, the pedals stay there. James Starley started building bikes in the UK in 1870. He produces a bike with a very large front wheel (high-wheel bicycle) was very small rear wheel. This type of bike is very popular all over Europe. Because Starley managed to make a breakthrough by creating the wheel radius and cross-tangent method. Until now, the technology that is still being used. Tail, a lighter bike for dikayuh.

Unfortunately, bicycles with big wheels it has many shortcomings. It's a dilemma for those who boned petite and women. Because the position of the pedals and the seat is high enough, they complain of difficulty to drive it. Until finally, a nephew of James Starley, John Kemp Starley find a solution. He creates a safer bike to be ridden by anyone in 1886. This bike had a chain to drive the rear wheels and two wheels the same size.

But no less important discoveries made ​​John Boyd Dunlop in 1888. Dunlop managed to find a bicycle tire technology that can be filled with air (pneumatic tire). From here, the rapid early progress of a bicycle. Various forms of bicycle successfully created. As is known then, became the vehicle that's fun bike.
In Indonesia, the development of a bicycle is much influenced by the colonizers, especially the Netherlands. They brought in production bike to use around the country enjoy the fresh nature of Indonesia. The habit is contagious in a blue-blooded aborigines. Finally, the bicycle became a prestigious transport.

In the next period, when the bicycle's role increasingly driven by technology that carried a variety of motorized vehicles (cars and motorcycles), some people began wanting to preserve history through a collection of antique bicycles. On average, their old bicycle manufacturer's European output. Figures annually between 1940 until the 1950s. And they are very careful in maintaining them.

In our society, old bicycle that was known by some title, such as Ontel, jeans, beetles and sundung. If that's jeans came from the word jingke (Betawi, meaning tiptoe), so when we have to berjingke rise so high. If Ontel, yes means diontel or dikayuh.


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