Velocipedes meant boneshakers, only occasionally was there the odd tricycle or quadricycle.
The boneshaker also had a brake a metal lever that pressed a wooden pad against the rear wheel.
Early races involving boneshaker style bicycles were predictably fraught with injuries.
It was popular after the boneshaker until the development of the safety bicycle in the 1880s.
He telegraphed his second-last boneshaker first time and was again ragged over the same set of fences down the back straight.
The draisine and the boneshaker, were hoped to become an inexpensive utilitarian alternative to horses by their makers.
