Cycling through time
Rupert, congratulations on your new book Power of the Pedal: the Story of Australian Cycling. What can you tell us about the first bicycles to be used in Australia? It was in the 1870s that the bicycle, then known as a ‘velocipede’ or ‘penny-farthing’ became a common sight, but the first mention of a bicycle in Australia dates back to the 1820s in a Hobart Town Gazette shipping column listing merchandise that arrived on the ship Tiger from London.
However, the bicycle’s
