Welcome to the

International Cycling History Conference


(ICHC)





The 19th ICHC will take place in:

St. Etienne/France
June 25th-28th 2008

Final programme (pdf)



The "monocycle" of Brescia
(17th century) in the Museum d'Art
et d'Industrie in St. Etienne/France





Congratulations to Professor Lessing

Professor Hans-Erhard Lessing from Mannheim/Germany will be 70 years old next Tuesday, (26th February). Professor Lessing is one of founding speakers of the ICHC and gave the opening paper at the first Conference in Glasgow in 1990. It is his conviction that modern personal mechanical mobility started with the bicycle.



Professor Lessing has done much to confirm that Freiherr von Drais invented the earliest two-wheeler and has done valuable work in demolishing ‘priority myths’ common in cycling history. Most famously, his researches (presented to the 1997 ICHC and published in Cycle History 8) proved that the design of a bicycle, supposed to originate from the studio of Leonardo da Vinci, was a mid 20th century falsification.

The International Cycling History Conference congratulates Professor Lessing for his birthday and hopes that he will attend many conferences in the future in good health.







The attendees of the 18th International Cycling History Conference 2007 in Tampere/Finland at the


(click for more information about the exhibition)

in Vapriikki-Museum. Photo: Ilari Haimila, Museum Centre Vapriikki

(click on photo for more information about the conference)




A warm welcome from organizer Mikko Kylliäinen:




"Mr. Tampere"

Hyvät naiset ja herrat! Tervetuloa Tampereelle!

Mina damer och herrar! Välkommen till Tammerfors!

Mine damer og herrer! Velkommen til Tampere!

Meine Damen und Herren! Willkommen in Tampere!

Dámy a pánové! Vítáme Vás na Tampere!

Mesdames et Messieurs! Bienvenue á Tampere!

Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to Tampere! <<more>>



Book of abstracts (pdf - only available for registered members)




The 20th ICHC will
take place in:

Freehold, NJ/USA

July 29th-August 1st 2009


Invitation


ICHC Tri-Fold Brochure (pdf)

Freehold Welcome booklet
(pdf)

Next conferences are planned in:

2010: Prague/Czech Republic
2011: Canberra/Australia



Gert Jan Moed, Lorne Shields, David Metz and
Gary Sanderson meet at the
Metz Bicycle Museum in October 2007