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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.
- 1898
- Collections - Artifact
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.
- McKay's Special Tandem Bicycle, circa 1900 - This quadruplet or four-seat tandem, from about 1900, would have been used in paced races. In these events, a team of pacers on a tandem pedaled around a track followed closely by a racer on a bicycle. Nestled in this wind resistant pocket behind the tandem -- the slipstream -- the racer could move at great speeds.
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
McKay's Special Tandem Bicycle, circa 1900
This quadruplet or four-seat tandem, from about 1900, would have been used in paced races. In these events, a team of pacers on a tandem pedaled around a track followed closely by a racer on a bicycle. Nestled in this wind resistant pocket behind the tandem -- the slipstream -- the racer could move at great speeds.
- Rambler Tandem Bicycle, circa 1892 - Gormully and Jeffery Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois, built this tandem, a bicycle for two or more people, about 1892. Tandems allowed couples to pedal away together -- the man in back and the woman up front (note the drop-frame section). This unchaperoned freedom for couples riding a bicycle built for two was set to music in several period songs.
- circa 1892
- Collections - Artifact
Rambler Tandem Bicycle, circa 1892
Gormully and Jeffery Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois, built this tandem, a bicycle for two or more people, about 1892. Tandems allowed couples to pedal away together -- the man in back and the woman up front (note the drop-frame section). This unchaperoned freedom for couples riding a bicycle built for two was set to music in several period songs.