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Safety bicycle

Safety bicycle \Safety bicycle\ A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually about 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear (driving) wheel by a multiplying gear. Since the 1930's this has been the most common type of bicycle, now simply called bicycle. The older high-wheelers are often referred to as bone-rattlers.

WordNet
safety bicycle

n. bicycle that has two wheels of equal size; pedals are connected to the rear wheel by a multiplying gear [syn: safety bike]

Wikipedia
Safety bicycle

A safety bicycle is a type of bicycle that became very popular beginning in the late 1880s as an alternative to the penny-farthing or ordinary and is now the most common type of bicycle. Early bicycles of this style were known as safety bicycles because they were noted for, and marketed as, being safer than the high wheelers they were replacing. Even though modern bicycles use a similar design, the term is rarely used today, and may be considered obsolete.

Usage examples of "safety bicycle".

When the time came for her to go, she suggested I might like to take a spin on her new safety bicycle, whose design she strongly recommended.