Susan B. Anthony once said, “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” The invention of the “safety bicycle ...

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Where were they all cycling to, men wondered. The development in 1885 of the Rover “safety bicycle” revolutionised women’s cycling. It featured a lower mounting position and inspired ...

The vital breakthrough was coming, though, as Wilson writes: "The motorcycle chassis can be clearly traced back to Rover's Safety Bicycle built in 1885 by John Kemp Starley." This machine was so ...

This form of bicycle revolutionised our ability to travel and became the most important form of personal transport.The Rover safety bicycle was developed during the 1880s in response to the need ...