The next bicycle appeared in 1861. The inventor was a French man named Pierre Michaux.  He called it the Velocipede but it was also called the Boneshaker.  It was rather uncomfortable to ride and that is how it got the name boneshaker.  This was the first bicycle to have pedals.  The rider’s feet no longer went along the ground.  They were used to turn two pedals that turned the axel I the front tire to make it roll along the ground and move the bike.  With each push on the pedal the front wheel only went around once.  It was also the first bike to have a brake on it.  It was still ever 100 pounds though and rather hard to ride.  

           Michaux realized that he could make and sell large amounts of these bikes.  He went into business with his son Ernest and soon the company was producing 400 of the machines a year.  Three years later they opened up a factory and were employing almost 300 people.  The boneshaker was instantly a hit with both Briton and the U.S.A.  The people there looked upon cycling as an exciting new sport.  Special rinks were opened where people could ride a boneshaker for a penny a minute.  In Briton the possibility that the boneshaker could become a form of transportation were shown in 1869.  3 men rode 83 km. (51 miles) from London to Brighton in under 16 hours.  You had to be strong to ride these bikes.        

      (Motored Velocipede to left)

         Ernest Michaux son of the inventor Pierre had an idea to make the bicycle look good to the less energetic sort of people.  He added a small steam engine to the boneshaker so that you only had to stop and steer.  The down side to this bike was that it could only travel a short distance before it ran out of steam.