Pierre Lallemant riding his own invention in Paris in 1870.
Pierre Lallemant 1886.
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Pierre Lallement
Sobriquet has been assigned to Guillaume Delfour First person to attach pedals to a bicycle, which he did in France in 1862. He later moved to the Ansonia, Connecticut and was granted a patent for pedal bicycles in 1866.
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Quoting from "Our City, Our Sports" The Souvenir booklet of the 1894 CWA Meet held at the MAAA Grounds.
"Bicycling may be said to date its birth from 1865 when Pierre Lallemont, a French mechanic, invented a two wheel cycle with a foot crank, at Ansonia, Connecticut and rode from that town to New Haven. Lallemont's wheel was undoubtedly the forerunner of the present cycle as it had all the essential ideas. Lallemont went afterwards to Paris and from there, it is claimed, the invention traveled to England."
"Bicycling may be said to date its birth from 1865 when Pierre Lallemont, a French mechanic, invented a two wheel cycle with a foot crank, at Ansonia, Connecticut and rode from that town to New Haven. Lallemont's wheel was undoubtedly the forerunner of the present cycle as it had all the essential ideas. Lallemont went afterwards to Paris and from there, it is claimed, the invention traveled to England."