tricycle update.
Omg guys guys guys YOU GUYS
Okay so you know how I have this tricycle problem
...PERHAPS YOU DO NOT. For those of you who are unaware: I have a tricycle problem. This problem is mainly that I am REALLY REALLY KEEN ON TRICYCLES because I have this learning disability which manifests itself, in part, in a stunning lack of visual-spatial awareness (that is a kind way of saying I am clumsy as fuck) and therefore I cannot actually balance on a bicycle. SO, naturally the solution to this problem is a TRICYCLE which is the same(ish) and does not require you to be able to do outrageous things like balance on two wheels whilst pedaling and steering and not running into trees ALL AT THE SAME TIME
Unfortunately I have not yet found The Perfect Tricycle (I have been looking for YEARS it's quite tragic), but my research on the subject of locating a tricycle for MYSELF has lead me to discover ALL KINDS of entertaining information on the subject.
For example
"Though technically not part of 2-wheel "bicycle" history, the intervening decades of the 1820s-1850s witnessed many developments concerning human-powered vehicles often using technologies similar to the draisine, even if the idea of a workable 2-wheel design, requiring the rider to balance, had been dismissed. These new machines had three wheels (tricycles) or four (quadracycles) and came in a very wide variety of designs, using pedals, treadles and hand-cranks, but these designs often suffered from high weight and high rolling resistance. However, Willard Sawyer in Dover successfully manufactured a range of treadle operated 4 wheel vehicles and exported them worldwide in the 1850s."
"In 1789, two French inventors, Blanchard and Maguier developed a tricycle. The Journal de Paris, noting that the new invention was different from the existing two-wheeled bicyle, invented the term "tricycle" to differentiate between the two human-powered vehicles"
"In 1877, Starley developed a new vehicle he called the Coventry Rotary, which was "one of the first rotary chain drive tricycles." Starley's inventions started a tricycling craze in Britain."
A TRICYCLING CRAZE!!!! fldsjfghljsdfddf omfg you guys I love history what even.
Also because I have an ongoing collection of Ye Olde Tricycle Photos (which you can see by clicking the "TRICYCLE" tag) (yes I have a "tricycle" tag, what of it), here is... well.
TWO VERY FASHIONABLE LADIES ON A DOUBLE-TRIKE
Some deeply perturbed looking people on a hilarious quadricycle.
Okay so you know how I have this tricycle problem
...PERHAPS YOU DO NOT. For those of you who are unaware: I have a tricycle problem. This problem is mainly that I am REALLY REALLY KEEN ON TRICYCLES because I have this learning disability which manifests itself, in part, in a stunning lack of visual-spatial awareness (that is a kind way of saying I am clumsy as fuck) and therefore I cannot actually balance on a bicycle. SO, naturally the solution to this problem is a TRICYCLE which is the same(ish) and does not require you to be able to do outrageous things like balance on two wheels whilst pedaling and steering and not running into trees ALL AT THE SAME TIME
Unfortunately I have not yet found The Perfect Tricycle (I have been looking for YEARS it's quite tragic), but my research on the subject of locating a tricycle for MYSELF has lead me to discover ALL KINDS of entertaining information on the subject.
For example
"Though technically not part of 2-wheel "bicycle" history, the intervening decades of the 1820s-1850s witnessed many developments concerning human-powered vehicles often using technologies similar to the draisine, even if the idea of a workable 2-wheel design, requiring the rider to balance, had been dismissed. These new machines had three wheels (tricycles) or four (quadracycles) and came in a very wide variety of designs, using pedals, treadles and hand-cranks, but these designs often suffered from high weight and high rolling resistance. However, Willard Sawyer in Dover successfully manufactured a range of treadle operated 4 wheel vehicles and exported them worldwide in the 1850s."
"In 1789, two French inventors, Blanchard and Maguier developed a tricycle. The Journal de Paris, noting that the new invention was different from the existing two-wheeled bicyle, invented the term "tricycle" to differentiate between the two human-powered vehicles"
"In 1877, Starley developed a new vehicle he called the Coventry Rotary, which was "one of the first rotary chain drive tricycles." Starley's inventions started a tricycling craze in Britain."
A TRICYCLING CRAZE!!!! fldsjfghljsdfddf omfg you guys I love history what even.
Also because I have an ongoing collection of Ye Olde Tricycle Photos (which you can see by clicking the "TRICYCLE" tag) (yes I have a "tricycle" tag, what of it), here is... well.
TWO VERY FASHIONABLE LADIES ON A DOUBLE-TRIKE
Some deeply perturbed looking people on a hilarious quadricycle.