Tag: TOC’08

The bicycle was introduced in the 19th century in Europe by German Inventor Karl von Drais. He is credited with developing the first bicycle. He introduced it to the people in Paris in 1818. It is supposed to originate from the human-powered vehicle called Draisines. Drais invented a walking machine that would help him get around the royal gardens faster. It was known by many names, including the “velocipede,” “dandy horse,” “hobby-horse,” “draisine” and “running machine. It had no pedals and its frame was a wooden beam. It had two same-size in-line wheels with the front one steerable and mounted in a frame which was straddled. In 1839, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith, allegedly completed construction of a pedal driven…

The final installment of our Tour of California coverage comes from photographer Darrell Parks, who took many of the images that so vividly captured the racing here on PEZ. I asked Darrell for a few of his favorite pics, and his memories from the week My affiliation with PEZ Cycling News began back in 2005 after submitting a few images from that year’s Tour de Georgia.My first race image submitted to Pez to kick start my foray into cycling photography! Gord Fraser on his way to taking Stage 6 of the 2005 Tour de GeorgiaFast forward to the year 2008 and I had been providing race images to Pez for a few years now. The images would end up in…