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- Rex Tandem Bicycle, 1898 - Bohn C. Hicks of Chicago, Illinois, devised a bicycle with a third wheel. The wheel was used not for stability but to absorb or minimize shocks when riding over obstructions -- or so the inventor claimed. This 1898 version is a tandem, a bicycle for two or more riders.
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Rex Tandem Bicycle, 1898
Bohn C. Hicks of Chicago, Illinois, devised a bicycle with a third wheel. The wheel was used not for stability but to absorb or minimize shocks when riding over obstructions -- or so the inventor claimed. This 1898 version is a tandem, a bicycle for two or more riders.