John Kemp Starley (24 December 1855 – 29 October 1901) was an English inventor and industrialist who is widely considered the inventor of the modern bicycle...

1889, the company became J.K. Starley & Co. Ltd., and in the late 1890s, the Rover Cycle Company Ltd. In 1899 John Starley imported some of the early...

front-drives, and only 9 with chain rear-drives. In that same year, John Kemp Starley (J. K. Starley) came out with the first commercially successful safety bicycle...

bicycle industry, which had boomed after the 1885 introduction of J K Starley's safety bicycle. J B Dunlop sold out in 1895 and took no further interest...

rear wheel which was actually made" and has been ranked alongside John Kemp Starley as an inventor of the modern bicycle. In 1879 he married Elizabeth...

possible without the need for a large front wheel. In 1885, Starley's nephew John Kemp Starley took these new developments to launch the modern bicycle,...

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Detractors called it "The Crocodile", and it failed in the market. John Kemp Starley, James's nephew, produced the first successful "safety bicycle", the...

steer via the front wheel remained a problem. Englishman J.K. Starley (nephew of James Starley), J.H. Lawson, and Shergold solved this problem by introducing...

city, as was the inventor James Starley, instrumental in the development of the bicycle and his nephew J.K. Starley, who worked alongside his uncle and...