If you like mountain biking then
Cambridge is not for you. It is about as far from big hills that you can get in England, without getting your feet wet! However, the region is steeped in history, pretty villages, an excellent minor road network and delightful rolling countryside.
The ancestor of the bicycle was first created by the German Baron Karl Drais, who invented and patented his machine in 1817. The first bicycle ride was from his residence town Mannheim to the suburb Rheinau.
These Draisenne were pushbikes, powered by the action of the rider's feet pushing against the ground. The Draisienne had two in-line wheels connected by a wooden frame. The rider sat astride and pushed it along with his feet, while steering the front wheel.
Then in 1839 this was further refined by a scotsman, by adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel, thus creating the first true "bicycle" in the modern sense. His system employed a pair of treadle drives connected by rods to a rear wheel crank.
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