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Museum Admission
Adults: £5.00.
Senior Citizens: £5.00
Children 4-16 with 1 child free admission with each paying adult £Extra children £1. For school visits please contact us for quote
Dogs £Free
Carers £Free
groups £discount given for 10+
groups £free admission to group organiser - min 10 in group

Opening Times
Will be open on Mondays,Tuesdays 10am-4pm Saturdays 10am-2pm
from 4th April
NO PREBOOKING REQUIRED BUT GROUP SIZES NEED TO COMPLY WITH COVID REGULATIONS
Call 01938 552817 if urgent , otherwise contact the curators by email via the get in touch section on Contact headinG
CYCLE JUMBLE SAT 16TH JULY
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National Cycle Museum
The Automobile Palace
Temple Street
Llandrindod Wells
Powys - Mid Wales
LD1 5DL
Tel: 01597 825531

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Velocipede / Boneshaker
No further technical progress was made in bicycle design until the 1860s, when the Michaux family, makers of components for the carriages in Paris, modified the hobby horse by attaching cranks and pedals to the front, steered wheel, allowing the machine to be propelled with the rider’s feet ‘off the ground’. This machine was extremely successful and large numbers of Velocipedes were manufactured in continental Europe, Great Britain and in America.
The limitation of the velocipede was its relatively low gearing, so that each revolution of the pedals only achieved a single revolution of the driven wheel, typically of about 1m. diameter, giving a development of 3.14m. (or 40” English gearing measurement). Efforts to increase the gearing by increasing the wheel diameter were limited by the materials used.
Velocipede wheels were manufactured from ash or hickory wood with a metal rim, as for a carriage wheel. This type of wheel could only be increased to about 1.25 m. before it became not strong enough or too heavy for its purpose. Machines of this type are called ‘transitional bicycles’ and very few have survived because of the fragility of the driven wheel.
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