ICHC-Program 2018

The program of the 29th (2018) ICHC that will be held in Guildhall in The City of London. You will receive a printed copy when you register at the Conference, but having this lo. res. copy now may give you a better idea of how this Conference is shaping up.

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8.30 Opening of the conference, Welcome and Daily Notes Philip Saunders (UK), 29th ICHC Chairman

8:45 Opening words: Cycle History is Important Sharon Ament, Director, Museum of London (UK)

9:00 May Your Strides Ever Be Long Ones Whence cometh the interest in hobby-horses, and why did the interest in these machines last so long? Roger Street (UK)

9:30 The Mysterious Rappa Rappa is the brand name for a 4-speed bottom bracket gearbox for bicycles. This is the story of the gearbox and how it came to be. Endre Varsa (Hungary); presented by Tony Hadland (UK)

10:00 Reflexions on Three Decades of the ICHC Time inevitably brings change and eventually the end. So how has the ICHC fared in its journey through time? Nick Clayton (UK)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 The First Bicycle Built in Spain (in Huisea in 1867) All about the first bicycle built in Spain and the first historic rides taken on it. Angel Giner (Spain)

11:30 From Muscle on Wheels to Beauty on Wheels: Women’s High-Wheel Bicycle Racing in Nineteenth-Century America Show business or true sport? Spectators were mostly men interested in watching and gambiling. Anne Hall (Canada)

12:00 Two Czech Tricycles from 1832(?) and 1891 Two Czech tricycles residing in the Technical Museum in Prague are examined in detail. Jan Králîk (Czeck Republic)

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