The first bike was created in 1817 and it was the German draisine.

From the 1820's to the 1850's many four wheeled pedal powered machines were made and called bikes.
During the 1850's Willard Sawyer successfully manufactured four wheeled bikes and exported them all over the world. The first very popular design was french made and was developed on 1863.
Then we move on to the classic big wheel "penny farthing". This bike was created in the 1870's.
This is a very well known bike as it is used in comedy sketches and cartoons due to its very funny frame shape.

In my next blog post I will talk about the more modern bikes and then move onto other aspects of bikes.