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1880 www.peopleplayuk.org.uk : At the end of the 19th century, the bicycle became a popular form of exercise and transport. Acrobatic music hall performers began to experiment with what new things could be achieved on this new contraption.
The Elliotts and the Seven Musical Savonas were famous in the 1880s for being the only cycling band.
Kaufmann’s Cycling Beauties were an all female formation cycling team who appeared wearing full Edwardian fashionable dress or tight-fitting short-legged garments.
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1890 The American Tobacco Company issued a set of 25 tobacco insert cards in the early 1890s to advertise chewing and smoking tobacco. riding one pedal

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the maltby coast
1897 L'américain Valdare fait de la bicyclette acrobatique à Paris en 1897. valdare

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1899 Bicycle trick riding filmed by Thomas Edison in 1899 and 1901.
1904 The illustrated sporting and dramatic news, july 30, 1904 : Trick cyclists.