1493 – First Sketches?

1790’s – Celerifere

1810 – Tarmac Roads

1817 – Draisienne

1818 – The Hobby Horse

1839 – Macmillan Velocipede

1853 – Tricycle and Quadracycle

1862 – Lallement’s Velocipede

1863 – Boneshaker

1865 – Storage Battery

1868 – Steam Velocipede

1868 – Bicycle College

1869 – Monocycle

1869 – Roper Steam Velocipede

1869 – First Road Race

1869 – Circus Velocipede

1869 – High Bicycle

1869 – McCall’s Velocipede

1870 – Penny Farthing

1870’s – Unicycle

1871 – American Bicycle

1873 – Safety Bicycle

1875 – Ordinary in Australia

1877 – Penny Farthing in America

1878 – Columbia Bicycle

1878 – Portable Bicycle

1880 – American Wheelmen

1880’s – High Wheel Tricycle

1880’s – High Wheel ‘Safety’ Bicycle

1881 – Sociable Monocycle

1884 – Circumnavigation

1884 – Rotary Tandem Tricycle

1885 – Rover Safety Bicycle

1885 Onwards – The Golden Age of Bicycling

1885 – Daimler Motorized Bicycle

1885 – Army Bicycles

1887 – French Army

1887 – Pneumatic Tyres

1887 – Raleigh Cycles

1888 – Reconnaissance

1888 – Springfield Roadster

1888 – Sunbeam Bicycles

1889 – Back-pedal Brake

1890 – Humber Bicycle

1891 – Tandem Velocipede

1891 – Detachable pneumatic bicycle tyre

1891 – USA Army Bicycles

1891 – 6 Day Bicycle Race

1892 – Telegram delivery in Japan

1892 – Huffy Corporation

1893 – Folding Bike

1893 – First Recumbent

1893 – Wright Cycle Company

1893 – World Sprint Championship

1894 – Female Circumnavigation

1895 – Schwinn Bicycles

1895 – Ideal Bicycle

1895 – Battery Powered Bicycle

1895 – Street Printing Tricycle

1895 – Michelin Tyres

1896 – French Folding Bicycle

1896 – First Women’s 6-day Bicycle Race

1896 – First Olympic Bicycle Race

1896 – 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps

1896 – Faun Folding Cycle

1897 – Theodore’s Motorized Bicycle

1897 – Challand Velocipede

1898 – Police Bondage Tricycle

1898 – Coaster Brake

1898 – Eight Man Tricycle

1898 – Steffens’ Electric Bicycle

1899 – Marshall W. Taylor

1899 – Mile-a-Minute Murphy

1899 – Boer War Cyclists

1899 – Dayton Special Roadster

1899 – Indian Bicycles

1901 – Cape Colony Cycle Corps

1901 – Machine Gun Tricycle

1901 – Brown Recumbent Bicycle

1902 – Gazelle Bicycle

1903 – Tour de France

1909 – 3 Speed Bicycle

1914 – Mass Production

1914-18 – Military Cyclists

1917 – Colson Bicycles

1919 – Fuji Bicycles

1920’s – Lines Brothers

1921 – Shimano Bikes

1924 – Velocar

1933 – Schwinn Cruiser Bicycle

1933 – Mochet’s Recumbent Bicycle

1934 – Recumbent Bicycle Banned

1934 – Schwinn B-10E

1935 – Elgin Bluebird

1936 – Schwinn Streamline Aero-Cycle

1937 – Folding Paratrooper Bicycle

1937 – Dayton Super Streamline

1938 – Derny Motorized Bicycle

1938 – Shelby’s Airflow Bicycle

1939-45 – American Military Bicycles

1941 – Bicycle Taxis Forbidden

1941 – Schwinn Auto Cycle Super Deluxe

1942 – Columbia Compax

1949 – Huffy Convertible Children’s Bicycle

1949 – Shelby Donald Duck

1949 – Sitzski Snowbike

1950 – Rollfast Hopalong Cassidy

1952 – Novice Tandem Gold Medal

1955 – Huffy Radio Bicycle

1956 – BMX Bikes

1962 – Moulton Bicycle Company

1964 -Jacques Anquetil wins Tour de France – For The Fifth Time!

1964 – Schwinn Sting-Ray

1964 – Chopper Bicycles

1968 – Raleigh Chopper Bicycle

1970s – 10 Speed Bikes

1970 – Moulton 3 Speed

1970s – The Goodies ‘Trandem’ Bicycle

1970 – Cannondale Bikes

1971 – Raleigh Folding Bike

1971 – Schwinn Apple Krate Sting-Ray

1971 – Giant Bikes

1971 – BMX Bikes

1974 – Modern Recumbent Movement

1974 – Specialized Bikes

1975 – Tandem Bicycles Circumnavigation

1975 – Klein Bikes

1975 – Trek Bicycles

1975 – GT Bicycles

1975 – Series Hybrid Pedelec

1976 – John Hathaway

1976 – Repack Downhill Race

1977 – Pacific Bikes

1979 – Kelly-Fisher Mountain Bikes

1979 – Bicycle Speed Record

1979 – Avatar 2000

1980 – International Unicycling Federation

1980 – Mountain Unicycling

1980s – Freestyle BMX Bikes

1981 – International BMX Federation

1981 – Specialized Stumpjumper

1981 – Brompton Folding Bike

1982 – Dahon Folding Bike

1982 – Haro BMX Bikes

1982 – BMX Bike World Championships

1983 – Human Powered Vehicle Championships

1984 – World Unicycling Convention

1985 – Avanti Bikes

Mid 1980s – Linear Recumbents

1988 – Kona Bicycle

1988 – Mountain Bike Hall of Fame

1988 – London Bicycle Tour

1989 – Bicycle Helmets

1990s – Felt Bikes

1991 – Conference Bicycle

1993 – Electra Bicycles

1993 – Sno Bikes

1996 – Olympic Mountain Bikes

1999 – Street Unicycling

2003 – Electra Townie Bikes

2003 – Cycling Nude in Spain

2006 – Sinclair’s Folding A-Bike

2008 – Beijing Olympics BMX

2008 – Ride the Lobster

2009 – Gazelle Electric Bicycles