World’s first ever pedal-powered cycle?

By Queuebot in Auto & Transportation, Everything Else on Mar 28, 2010 at 6:22 am

Historian Xu Quan Long claims this wooden cycle is is a recreatio of the world’s first ever cycle. He says it was in use over 2000 years before the first wooden bicycle.

Xu said he stumbled across the discovery while studying the works of legendary ancient Chinese inventor Lu Ban, who was born more than 2,500 years ago.

Lu is credited with inventing devastating military weapons like a counterweighted ‘cloud ladder’ for storming castle defences, and a ‘wooden bird’ that could supposedly glide for three days without landing.

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  1. Mitch
    Mar 28th, 2010 at 6:45 am

    Ah, the great Lu Ban. I always wondered who invented plywood.

  2. Edward
    Mar 28th, 2010 at 7:12 am

    I clearly remember it was Thor.

  3. felixthecat
    Mar 28th, 2010 at 10:36 am

    Oceania’s Big Brother invented the plane, I believe, as well as the locomotive. I don’t know about the bicycle, but probably that too.

  4. zavatone
    Mar 28th, 2010 at 10:49 am

    All cycles are pedal powered.

  5. Cola
    Mar 28th, 2010 at 10:51 am

    Great observation, Zavatone. Congratulations.

    I love recreations of ancient things. Probably because I love ancient things.

  6. montynet
    Mar 28th, 2010 at 12:24 pm

    “The Chinese claim to have invented absolutely everything! All I say to the Chinese is – why didn’t you invent the camera twelve hundred years ago so you could prove it?”

  7. Neil C
    Mar 28th, 2010 at 12:30 pm

    When distinctly European mummies were found in China buried with oodles of technology previously credited to the Chinese of millennia later, the Chinese government teamed up with the National Geographic channel to “invent” a way to consider these mummies to be Chinese!

    Their inventions are limitless.

  8. VonSkippy
    Mar 28th, 2010 at 6:13 pm

    It’d be more impressive if China’s mindset wasn’t stuck 2000 years in the past.

  9. BikerRay
    Mar 29th, 2010 at 5:15 am

    “All cycles are pedal powered.” Maybe now. The first velocipedes were not.


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