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...design could not compete with the front-crank velocipede of the Lallement/Michaux type, however, despite McCall's all steel version of 1869. == 1860s and the Michaux or "Boneshaker" ==

...ver the bicycle company run by [[Pierre Michaux]] and his family. In 1866, Michaux produced a new machine with an iron frame which sloped down to contain the ...-year-old English immigrant called [[James Moore]]. He was a friend of the Michaux family and rode one of their new bicycles. It is now in the museum at [[Ely

...n inferior one. In the 1850s and 1860s, Frenchmen Ernest [[Michaux]] and [[Pierre Lallement]] took bicycle design in a different direction, placing the pedal