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- There are about a billion bicycles in the world, twice as many as motorcars. http://www.didyouknow.org/bicycles.htm
- Although Leonardo da Vinci drew some rough sketches of a contraption that looked like a bicycle, the Frenchman De Sivrac built the first bicycle-type vehicle in 1690. It was referred to as a hobbyhorse. However, it did not have pedals. Those were added in 1840 by a Scottish blacksmith, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, who is credited with inventing the real bicycle http://www.didyouknow.org/bicycles.htm
- The first five-seat bicycle, the quindem, was built in 1940. http://www.didyouknow.org/bicycles.htm
- The world speed record on a bicycle is held by John Howard, Olympic Cyclist and Ironman triathlon winner from the US. In 1985 he reached 245,08 km/h (152.2 mph), cycling in the slipstream of a specially designed car. http://www.didyouknow.org/bicycles.htm
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A bike is a short form of the word bicycle or motorcycle. A bike is a pedal-driven, human-powered vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other.
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