The History of the bicycle

Today Room 12 seen some old bikes, one of them was 200 years old. There was a man named Shane who has been collecting all these bikes. He told us about the bikes and most days he rides them. Check out some these pics. 

 This bike is called a Penny Farthing, Shane showed us a safe way to get on it. 

 

This is the safety bicycle it was the first bike to have air in its tires.

 

This bike is called Hobby Horse you sit on it and walk or you can run. It was invented by a German man named Karl Drais in 1817. It is considered as the first bicycle.

This bike is called the MacMillan. In 1839 a Scottish man named Kirkpatrick Macmillan invented it. It is 

The first bike to be mechanically propelled . If you find out what another name for the penny farthing is put it in the comments bellow. 

By: Tia