The 233-Year History of the Bicycle In One Handy Chart Gizmodo

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  • September 5, 2013 at 1:52 pm #980323
    dasgeh
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    Very, very cool. But incomplete.

    It’s missing a Madsen, a strider bike, this tandem and this folding bike.

    What else?

    September 5, 2013 at 1:56 pm #980326
    PotomacCyclist
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    @dasgeh 63136 wrote:

    Very, very cool. But incomplete.

    It’s missing a Madsen, a strider bike, this tandem and this folding bike.

    What else?

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    September 5, 2013 at 1:58 pm #980328
    PotomacCyclist
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    I don’t know if this qualifies as a bike. If so, then it could be added (on one of the failed bike evolution lines).

    September 5, 2013 at 2:02 pm #980335
    83b
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    A Pedersen, a Moulton, the TREK Y-FOIL and, most puzzlingly, a standard 26″ mountain bike.

    And a number of the evolutionary relationships between models are … curious.

    September 5, 2013 at 2:12 pm #980343
    PotomacCyclist
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    September 5, 2013 at 2:34 pm #980358
    consularrider
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    @83(b) 63148 wrote:

    … a standard 26″ mountain bike …

    I think those are in the lower left hand corner. Also, for those posting pictures of four wheeled contrapations, this is a chart of the history of BIcyles, not all types of human powered vehicles (I also don’t see any three wheelers unless the little red one on the middle right hand side is a kid’s tricycle, but probably more like a strider type bike). ;) :p

    September 5, 2013 at 2:37 pm #980359
    mstone
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    those goofy cross-country skier bikes

    September 5, 2013 at 2:42 pm #980361
    PotomacCyclist
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    @consularrider 63171 wrote:

    I think those are in the lower left hand corner. Also, for those posting pictures of four wheeled contrapations, this is a chart of the history of BIcyles, not all types of human powered vehicles (I also don’t see any three wheelers unless the little red one on the middle right hand side is a kid’s tricycle, but probably more like a strider type bike). ;) :p

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    September 5, 2013 at 2:53 pm #980367
    83b
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    @consularrider 63171 wrote:

    I think those are in the lower left hand corner.

    I thought so too at first! But if you right-click and choose “view image” to zoom in, their labeling goes from commuter/trekking bikes –> freeride –> downhill –> 29″er –> 27.5″. Seems like an odd evolution to me.

    September 5, 2013 at 3:41 pm #980388
    ShawnoftheDread
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    No fat bikes and no triple or quadruple tandems.

    September 6, 2013 at 1:44 pm #980520
    Meganomics
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    @dasgeh 63136 wrote:

    Very, very cool. But incomplete.

    It’s missing a Madsen, a strider bike, this tandem and this folding bike.

    What else?

    The chronology is really jacked up. The poster implies that longtails were invented in 1920 (when it was really more like 1990) and has Yuba’s Boda Boda evolving in 1960 instead of, oh, 2012.

    All that doesn’t stop me from admiring it and wanting one for every room in my house. :-)

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