velocipedes

Wooden hobbyhorses evolved into velocipedes; velocipedes evolved into safety bicycles; safety bicycles evolved into automobiles.

19th century cyclists paved the way for modern motorists' roads | Carlton Reid 2011

I'm not sure I was referring to bike messenging in particular - I am aware there were no fleets of couriers on their new-fangled velocipedes and other 'running machines' darting along the cobblestone streets.

The Way We Were: The Future's So "Meh" I Gotta Wear Pom Poms BikeSnobNYC 2010

All the "OGs" were born antebellum and acquired their bike-handling skillz and street cred from riding velocipedes and p-fars.

Turn, Turn, Turn: To Every Thing There is a Barspin BikeSnobNYC 2009

The city returned to the slower but more reliable modes of transport: carriages, horses, carts, camels, elephants, stagecoaches and, for the really nutty fitness fanatics, velocipedes.

'Blonde Roots' 2009

And it's been said that drivers in Paris have actually reacted to sharing the streets with velocipedes.

Adam Hanft: A Bicycle Built for Us: Will this Weekend's "Summer Streets" Program Launch Our Bike-Sharing Revolution? 2009

Turner was managing the sale of these machines in Paris and heard of these novel modes of transport - velocipedes being built.

More questions on Penn's M 2008

When countrybound velocipedes, a chainless freewheel roadster cycle with side basketcar attached, or draught conveyance, a donkey with wicker trap or smart phaeton with good working solidungular cob (roan gelding, 14 h).

Ulysses 2003

Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round and round the rim of a round and round precipitous globe.

Ulysses 2003

The object of this invention is to obtain a more advantageous application of the propelling power than the ordinary cranks, to avoid the noise of pawls and ratchets, and to guard the velocipedes against being overturned should one of the rear wheels pass over an obstruction.

Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

And while the clerk was gone the sailor walked about, looking at some bicycles and velocipedes at the far end of the toy department.

The Story of a Lamb on Wheels Laura Lee Hope