Bikes in History — An Occasional Series


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This astonishing Attic krater is said to date to c.500-480 BC and depicts Ganymede coming to terms with the logistics of bird transport on his new machine.
The current location of this krater is at Villa Farnese, Caprarola, Lazio, in Italy, should you wish to visit and marvel at this sensitive depiction of a man and his bike, which, admittedly, looks a little old-fashioned to us now.
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The late fourteenth-century Wilton Diptych shows King Richard II (kneeling, left) offering a Cannondale® Mixte-frame mountain bike equipped with the Rhode Gear Taxi® child seat to the Virgin Mary (standing, right). Richard is to be congratulated on this excellent choice for a dynamic Lady for whom no doubt both style and performance rank as highly as the safety and comfort of her Child.
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