From the Tour De France to Track Racing, the sport of cycling owes everything to the invention of the “Treadle Driven Bicycle” by Scotsman Kirkpatrick Macmillan.
Although the invention of the bicycle is largely accredited to Germany’s Baron Karl von Drais (he designed a two wheeled hobby horse that was powered by pushing it around with your feet), it was Dumfriesshire born Kirkpatrick McMillan who added a treadle to drive the back wheel that made the Bicycle what it is today…
