The role of the Egyptians, Aztecs and British in the creation of the bicycle

this invention bike emerged from various predecessor designs conceived in the land. Egyptian, Aztec and English, and also in his mind and drawings Leonardo da Vincialthough other versions warrant that this drawing is fabrication.

The first societies mentioned were societies that created patterns that evolved over time. History and is currently located in major cities as an alternative means of transportation.

According to the Argentine author, popular two-wheeled locomotives had their origins in ancient communities in Africa, Central America, and Europe. Juan Carlos Kreimer .

“The discovery of the wheel eclipsed its axis, its center; Without it, how would we benefit from it? The daughter of this quest, desire rather than necessity, humanoid of man. bike. Two wheels joined by a body with axes. maybe egyptians They were the first to taste what I felt as I rolled them (there was still no proper verb) and thought it was a mix of play and adventure,” says the journalist and novelist, Juan Carlos Kreimerauthor Bike Zen: Urban cycling as meditationPublished by Editorial Planeta.

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in the framework of industrial RevolutionIn the last decade of the 19th century, bike It went from being a pastime for the wealthy to the world’s most popular mode of transport, raising public morale and etiquette at a dizzying pace.

accepted “benefit of the city”; Going to work, going to the country on the weekend, was a social catalyst of the first order because it facilitated the movement of people in cities, allowing all kinds of associations: clubs, gymnasiums, choirs, libraries,

In 1895, two hundred companies, bike, with three thousand models to choose from. Inside England 800,000 were built in just one year, at the expense of a few weeks’ salary.

“They weren’t all-terrain vehicles like horses: they could only ride on basically flat surfaces. But they didn’t hide their genes: the different types of aggregation were called hobby horses and dandy horses by the British… To emphasize the animalistic character of the object,” he explains. Juan Carlos Kreimer.

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Historical revisionism on two wheels

urban cyclist

rolling ancestors

Ever since the Neolithic discovered that the circle could rotate, there was no one to stop it. Perhaps man already knew, as things are known that we do not know we know, that the wheel is hiding a greater purpose, specifically another fruit of Creation destined to be tried.

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(…) The discovery of the wheel overshadowed its axis, its center; Without it, how would we benefit from it? The daughter of this quest, desire rather than necessity, was born the humanoid of the bicycle. Two wheels joined by a body with axes. Perhaps the Egyptians were the first to get a taste of what it felt like to roll over them (there was still no proper verb) and thought it was a mix of play and adventure.

No one can explain how a similar pattern emerged among the Aztecs on the other side of the world at roughly the same time. As it happened, the connection between the blow and the tornado was already between the man’s legs. The image of that centaur, the cyclist, with or without a horse, with its body almost protruding from its hip, makes its debut in the iconography of both cultures.

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The trail disappeared into history and only reappeared in the 17th century in the form of another hardwood hulk with a saddle and fixed handlebars (…)

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(…) Even when the British put the pedals on the front wheel, velosipeds as they were generically known continued to be exotic, disproportionate, grotesque objects (…)

* Chapter Fragment Urban cyclist. ancestors of rolling “Bike Zen: urban cycling as meditation” (ed.Planeta)by Juan Carlos Kreimer

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