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Article about cycle shelters with a look at how
modern cars are generally considered to have
originated in the year 1885 which coincidentally is
the year when most people consider was the year
of the first modern bicycle.
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It is a remarkable coincidence that the first modern combustion petrol
driven car is attributed to Karl Benz with his 1895 model and that the first
modern bicycle is generally considered to have been born in the same
year in France With around six hundred million cars in the world today it
is one of the greatest inventions of man Six hundred million equates to
about one car to every eleven people on the planet It may surprise you
to know that there are almost double that number of bicycles in the world
at an estimated one billion and that many social historians consider the
bicycle to have had an even bigger impact than the car

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To take just one example where the bicycle has had a major influence
the women's suffragette movement at the beginning of the twentieth
century claimed it gave women the greatest feeling of freedom which also
resulted in a change in dress design Suddenly bloomers were revealed
by cycling young women fixed gear bikes and the action was considered
racy by some and denounced by crusty old clerics who saw the bike as
an ungodly machine when used by the fairer sex Another very strange
fact is that neither the bike nor the car has really changed that much in
well over the hundred and twenty five years since their invention If you
take a look at a photograph of a bicycle from 1915 and look at one today
the differences are negligible

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The modern bike is lighter and has refinements like more gears and
better breaks but the concept and mechanics is the same With the car
there are certainly many more noticeable differences from a 1905
photograph to a car on the road today but here again, apart from the
looks and much technical advancement both are still run by a combustion
engine fed on fossil fuel Between the inventions of both these relatively
unchanged forms of transport a man managed to glide in the first plane
over a few hundred yards and then later on someone flew the English
Channelfollowed by jet power and eventually rockets to the moon With
planes now capable of three times the speed of sound and space craft
flying to Mars the really big mystery is why cars have and bicycles not
progressed any further? A cynic would answer that question in relation to
cars by saying that the simple answer is that there is a massive amount
of money involved in fossil fuels and if they weren't needed it is no
exaggeration to say that whole nations would collapse

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In the U K alone where over two million new cars are sold each year
the amount of money the British government makes from all forms of
transport is hundreds of times more than they invest back into roads and
other transport costs

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Meanwhile the bike keeps rolling along and as long as long as there are
bikes there is need of Many inventors have tried to improve on the
standard road bike but none have succeeded and the old adage seems
to be true that if it isn't broken, don't fix it

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