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Ball bearings were invented after the bicycle. Belive it or not, but people on a budget would still get bikes without bearings up until the interwar period.
by tokai 3y ago
Ball bearings were invented after the bicycle. Belive it or not, but people on a budget would still get bikes without bearings up until the interwar period.
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoEvery pre-modern wagon had a big old bucket of grease hung at the side of it. It was needed to keep the axle continuously lubricated. (Sayings about wheels and grease are preserved to this day.) Theoretically, a two-wheeled transportation contraption could have been made, but having to carry the grease with you would make it pointless.
- tokai 3y agoSame sayings about grease and bikes existed as well. Its not theoretically, bikes with plain bearings were made and ridden.