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You know how to ride a bike. Just hop on
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and start pedaling. But what if your bike
didn’t have pedals? Or brakes?
How did bikes get started? A German forest ranger named Karl
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von Drais wanted a faster way to roam around the woods. His
contraption, called a draisienne (he named it after himself, of
course), didn’t have pedals. It was more like a sit-on scooter.
Special schools sprang up to teach people how to ride these
1818 “hobbyhorses.” Only the rich could afford them. And the dirt roads,
meant for real horses, were too rough for comfortable riding.
contraption A contraption is a mechanical gadget or device that has a
certain purpose.
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