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No Pedals, No Horse: The First Bike Ride of 1817: The True Story of Karl Drais
(00:00) The first ride, 1817
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The true story of Karl Drais, the German inventor who rode the first two-wheeled running machine on 12 June 1817: two wooden wheels in a line, a seat, a steering bar and no pedals. The year before, a volcanic eruption on the other side of the world had brought Europe a year without a summer, when food was scarce even for horses. Drais rode about 14 kilometres out of Mannheim and back in around an hour. Crowds paid to watch his machine in Paris and London went wild for the dandy horse, but copies spread everywhere and Drais died penniless in 1851. Today…
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