2. Karl Drais (April 29, 1785 – December
10, 1851) was a German inventor, who
invented the Laufmaschine ("running
machine“) later called the
velocipede, draisine (English) or
draisienne (French), also nicknamed the
dandy horse. This incorporated the two-
wheeler principle that is basic to the
bicycle and motorcycle and was the
beginning of mechanized personal
transport.
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3. Mountain bike
Races bikes
Road bicycle racing began as
an organized sport in
1868.The first world
championship was in 1893
and cycling has been part of
the Olympic Games since the
modern sequence started I n
Athens in 1896.
The tour of France is the
most famous road bike race
in Europe
Probably the most famous
races of mountain bike is the
Megavalanche
There are aspects of mountain
biking that are more similar to
trail running than regular
bicycling. Riders are often far
from civilization, in fact, they love
to visit mountains!!!
4. Bicycle Moto Cross (BMX), an extreme style
of bicycle track racing, became a sport in the
2008 Summer Olympic Games in
Beijing, China.
BMX
A BMX bike or BMX is the name of a popular
bicycle used for both casual riding and sport, and
designed mainly for dirt and motocross cycling.
"BMX" is the usual abbreviation for bicycle
motocross.
5. Cool Facts
• On a bicycle you can travel up to 1037 kms on the
energy equivalent of a single litre of petrol.
• On a bicycle you use up fewer watts of energy than a
car consumes simply to power it's lighting system for
the same distance.
• On a bicycle you weigh about six times more than your
vehicle. With a car your vehicle weighs around twenty
times more than you do.
• On a bicycle you consume a fiftieth of the oxygen
consumed by a motor vehicle, and expel no pollutants
