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Angelfishsolo
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Cars evolved from Bikes?
I always believed they evolved from the Horse and cart (The Horseless carriage as they were called). Maybe I'm wrong or maybe it's creative journalism.
Nigel-YZ1
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Agreed, it's inaccurate as to where cars came from. Apart from that I like the article.
Angelfishsolo
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Likewise. To be honest I meant to write more but got sidetracked.
Hilldodger
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Cars did evolve from bicycles. Without the bicycle the manufacturers wouldn't have had steel metal tubing, chains and sprockets, spoked wheels, pneumatic tyres, Bowden cables etc etc etc.
The first successful Safety bicycle was built by Rover, the same Rover that went on to produce cars.
I honestly can't find anything wrong with the article.
The first successful Safety bicycle was built by Rover, the same Rover that went on to produce cars.
I honestly can't find anything wrong with the article.
Angelfishsolo
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That isn't the same as evolving though is it. BSA produced guns and munitions. Does that mean the Motorbikes evolved from guns or vica versa?
Hilldodger
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BSA also made motorbikes and cars after starting bicycle production.
Angelfishsolo
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Thus the bicycle evolved from the Gun?
Hilldodger
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There is plenty of evidence of bicycle manufacturers developing their products frist into motorbikes and then into cars.
Angelfishsolo
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Then clearly evidence can be distorted. The idea for the car came from the Horse and Cart. This is why we still use Horse Power and BHP today. Also carriageways. The contemporary used may have initially been taken from bicycles but I am sure that much of the needed machinery existed before bikes with cogs and chains.
Hilldodger
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OK, whatever you say.
Obviously my fifteen years of research into cycling history has been wasted.
Obviously my fifteen years of research into cycling history has been wasted.
Angelfishsolo
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Yes cycling research - Not the evolution of the Motorcar.
Hilldodger
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Perhaps I'd better start looking at all the cart manufacturers who developed the car using the new technology brought about by the cycle industry.
Angelfishsolo
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Maybe we should clarify definitions. To me evolution means "to turn into" or to become. I will happily accept that the bicycle was instrumental in the design of early cars but their evolution is from the Horse and Cart. This explains why there are bicycles a plenty but horse and carts are rather rare.
Hilldodger
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One of the very first motor cars to be made was a pedal tricycle with and engine fitted to it. These were developed into early motor cars of the type made by Daimler.
Around the same time (and slightly before) people were putting steam engines on to horse drawn vehicles.
Around the same time (and slightly before) people were putting steam engines on to horse drawn vehicles.
