With some of my recent posts about the new bikes for 2012, I
thought it was about time to have a look at how the bicycle came to be.
The humble bicycle is almost unrecognisable to the rough
drawing of one of Leonardo da Vinci’s students, in the 15th century.
Despite all of the components being available to the general public, nobody
considered putting them all together. It wasn’t for another few hundred years,
before things really got going.
Karl Drais
The real history of the bike starts with Karl Friedrich
Christian Ludwig Freiherr Drais von Sauerbronn, or simply known as Karl Drais.
Aristocrat, Drais was one of the most creative of his time; however, he was regularly
ridiculed by his peers. Many of his inventions are still in use today,
including the meat grinder, but it was his bicycle that really made his famous.
