Cycling Revolution

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Cyclist ofg the first Vienna-Berlin 1893 Paul Mündner, C. Andersen, Georg Sorge, Josef Fischer, Franz Gerger, Max Rehais

The importance of the first Vienna-Berlin cycling race (1893)

Although the year 1893 for the first long-distance cycling road race in the region sounds pretty impressive (just think about, the first […]

Extract of the original picture of Pierre and Marie Curie on their honeymoon in 1895

Marie and Pierre Curie and their bicycle honeymoon

It’s a quite a usual thing, that around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, people who were interested in modern, […]

Vintage cycling image of the start of the first Bordeaux-Paris cycling race in 1891

The first Bordeaux-Paris (1891)

  The first Bordeaux-Paris road cycling race was held on 23 May 1891. The route was 560 km long, the race was […]

Vintage cycling image from the 19th century: Henri Desgrange, the founding father of the Tour de France posing as a young cyclist on his own bicycle.

The cyclist Henri Desgrange

Although nowadays Henri Desgrange is remembered for being the founding father of Tour de France, in his youth he had also a […]