Citations:céléripede


 * 2001: Patrick Mangan, Sports on Wheels, page 22 (Nelson Thornes: PM Library ; ISBN 9781869614744
 * The first bicycle was made more than two hundred years ago. Like the first cars and motorcycles, it was quite different from the modern machines. In 1790, a Frenchman named de Sivrac invented something called a ‘céléripede’. The frame of the céléripede was a wooden bar that was attached to two wheels. There were no pedals, so the person riding it had to stride along the ground to make it move.