Did you know that although Leonardo da Vinci drew some rough sketches of a what looked like a bicycle, the Frenchman De Sivrac built the first bicycle-type of contraption in 1690.
It was referred to as a hobbyhorse. However, it did not have pedals. Those were added in 1840 by a Scottish blacksmith, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, who is credited with inventing the real bicycle. .