Their ingenious efforts make a fascinating display for 21st century cycling and non-cycling visitors. If you are Horsham-born architect and inventor Edward Burstow, you create an iconic Horsham bike, the Pentacycle. The Pentacycle, also known as the Hen & Chickens, was a five-wheel bike (one large wheel and four outriders) bedecked with large baskets. The September 1869 issue of the Albery Journal saw the editor comment on something he had seen growing in popularity in Horsham, the cycling craze. Yet that did not stop one publisher producing a large, fully-illustrated weekly magazine, similar in style to Country Life, called The Cycling World Illustrated.

Source: Express September 01, 2020 10:07 UTC