This statement came a mere nine years after John Kemp Starley invented the ‘Safety Bicycle’, the freedom machine that would propel the women ... bearing – may be required to take up to 40% of a ...

A unique local story relates to the Kilkenny woman, Doreen Archer Houblon of Kilmurry House in Thomastown who taught the Queen to ride a horse side saddle. This style of riding was devised as a modest ...

As early as 1895, a researcher surmised that women could become numb while cycling (easing some fears of the bike saddle as ...