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- "Regina" Bicycle, 1895 - Louis Ives of Dearborn, Michigan, applied a different drive system to the early safety bicycle. If you look closely at this 1890s bicycle it has no chain. The pedals operated a ratchet gear system to turn the back wheel. This drive system, like the shaft-drive chainless, failed to catch on and few were manufactured.
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"Regina" Bicycle, 1895
Louis Ives of Dearborn, Michigan, applied a different drive system to the early safety bicycle. If you look closely at this 1890s bicycle it has no chain. The pedals operated a ratchet gear system to turn the back wheel. This drive system, like the shaft-drive chainless, failed to catch on and few were manufactured.