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HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

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Cyclists in the Tour de France sharing a smoke, France, 1920 (media.piefed.social)

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Check out the bike - fixed gear, they just flipped the rear wheel for the climbing gear. Shoes strapped into the pedals, slowing on mountaint descents with brakes made of cork, people died in these races.

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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 point 8 months ago

are you sure about bikes being fixed geared? They may just be single speeds.

By 1899 there was widespread adoption in UK bicycle manufacture of the freewheel, usually combined with the back-pedal brake, and conversions were offered to existing bicycles.

At the turn of the century, bicycle manufacturers within Europe and America included the freewheel mechanism in a majority of their bicycles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewheel

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