Timeline for Could a historic (1500- 1700 AD) bicycle stand rough terrain? If yes how?
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| Apr 27 at 13:15 | answer | added | Pekka | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 26 at 10:42 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @NathanKnutson the other good point about an unusual question, is that if it hits the HNQ then it attracts new users to the site. This one already has 3k views. | |
| Apr 26 at 8:27 | history | edited | Rеnаud |
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| Apr 26 at 5:53 | answer | added | Simon Crase | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 24 at 22:41 | answer | added | Therac | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 24 at 14:41 | answer | added | gschenk | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 24 at 14:18 | answer | added | vk5tu | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 24 at 14:06 | comment | added | Michael come lately | @Pica Michael's answer mentioned belt drives, too. I am skeptical about them, as I alluded in a comment on his answer and now a longer comment on your WB.SE answer. | |
| Apr 24 at 11:46 | comment | added | Sean | I think you're asking the wrong question. A horse easily beats out even the most expensive of modern bikes over rough terrain (especially long distances), across several factors—speed, ease of maintainability, rider exhaustion, etc. | |
| Apr 24 at 11:11 | comment | added | ojs | @Pica yes there are, and you would examples with a simple web search. Belt drive has been expected to replace chains for decades now, and might be ready any century now. | |
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| Apr 24 at 10:58 | answer | added | Criggie♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 24 at 10:52 | comment | added | Pica | Someone in the world building stack pointed out that belts can actually replace large parts of a gear system. But they need tension.. so no idea. are there bikes with belts as energy transfer? | |
| Apr 24 at 10:42 | history | reopened |
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| Apr 23 at 19:40 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @Pica terminology - bearings might be cast metal with no moving parts, like one would find connecting a wagon's axle to the chassis/bed. I should have said "roller bearings" which includes ball bearings and needle bearings. I couldn't say offhand when Babbit bearings were invented. | |
| Apr 23 at 19:35 | comment | added | Pica | @Criggie: Turns out there are very old lathes. Lathes are pretty old actually.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathe#History but bearings.. are hard.. | |
| Apr 23 at 19:31 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @Pica As per the tour Bicycles.SE is for "people who ride, repair, or build bicycles" so strictly this is OT. But we're not a high-throughput site, and occasional questions like this are excellent at testing one's knowledge. | |
| Apr 23 at 18:00 | comment | added | Nathan Knutson | Voting to re-open. The question is fundamentally about the history of bicycles and the interplay of prerequisite technology/industry. It's basically asking when could bikes have been invented, in what form, could they have somehow come before industrialism, what would such a bike be capable of, and what would be required to make it. I don't see what's off topic about any of that. | |
| Apr 23 at 17:55 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Apr 23 at 17:47 | vote | accept | Pica | ||
| Apr 23 at 17:12 | history | closed |
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| S Apr 23 at 16:01 | history | suggested | Michael come lately | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Line the body timeframe up with the title edit. Some proofreading.
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| Apr 23 at 15:32 | answer | added | Weiwen Ng | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 23 at 14:53 | comment | added | Michael come lately | This is more "worldbuilding" than "historic," but Mark Twain had Arthurian knights riding bicycles. | |
| Apr 23 at 13:49 | history | edited | Pica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 23 at 13:42 | comment | added | David D | a quick google indicates that "prehistoric" = 2.5 million years ago to 1,200 BC. According to Wiki the earliest chariots existed about 1900 BCE so we have wooden wheels. The question is - what qualifies as a "bicycle". It stands to reason that they could have built a device like a Draisine or Velocipede. | |
| Apr 23 at 13:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 23 at 13:10 | comment | added | DavidW | Hi, welcome to bicycles. I'm not sure this is actually on-topic here, since the focus of this site is on actual real-world bicycles. A question about the durability of a specific type or model of late 19th century bicycle might be on-topic, but not an ahistorical pre-industrial concept. | |
| Apr 23 at 13:07 | answer | added | Michael | timeline score: 12 | |
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| S Apr 23 at 12:52 | history | asked | Pica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |