03/09/2026
Bicycles weren’t always… well, bicycles. 🚲👀
No pedals. Giant front wheels. Wooden frames. And eventually, a bicycle boom that happened before the automobile boom.
Swipe through 5 crazy-but-true chapters from bicycle history and see how we went from pushing a wooden “running machine” to the bicycles we ride today.
Which fact surprised you the most? 👇
Save this for your next cycling trivia moment. 😉
(Sources: Smithsonian Institution — National Museum of American History; Canada Science and Technology Museum)
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The historical points in the carousel are supported particularly well by the Smithsonian’s bicycle-history collection, including the 1870s Ordinary, the 1885 safety-bicycle design, and the U.S. production boom from 200,000 bicycles in 1889 to 1 million in 1899
