Real fact #176
The First bike was called a hobbyhorse.
Wrong! it was called a draisine or DANDY-HORSE English.
First called this by a man named Baron Draisine
A Draisine is in the French language.
*Title of Database Oxford English Dictionary.
* Title of the Article Draisine.
* Author/Editor/Company Name
* Web Address (URL) //dictionary.oed.com
* Name of Institution that subscribes to the Database
* Date of Publication/Update We do not know when the last update was.
* Access Date We think at 1989.
We asked a question on Google, and it gave us a few answers. This is that question: " What was the first bike called?"
We soon found out from a number of sites that it was called a Célérifère. We found out
from a number of different sights that it was called a Draisine or Dandy-Horse in English. See you on our next Snapple Real Fact Buster.