{"id":5653,"date":"2012-09-16T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/09\/16\/rare-pneumatic-hiwheel-found-in-czech-republic\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:25","slug":"rare-pneumatic-hiwheel-found-in-czech-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/09\/16\/rare-pneumatic-hiwheel-found-in-czech-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Pneumatic HiWheel Found in Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-PaKvoFDWvO4\/UFYC7FCJ1WI\/AAAAAAAAAZ8\/ZEwX1qirgpQ\/s1600\/sideview-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-PaKvoFDWvO4\/UFYC7FCJ1WI\/AAAAAAAAAZ8\/ZEwX1qirgpQ\/s320\/sideview-1.jpg?resize=320%2C274\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0P<span>er our report about how John Dunlop and the Irish killed the Hiwheel, <a href=\"http:\/\/nbggrabbag.blogspot.ie\/2012\/07\/how-ireland-killed-hiwheel-story-of-tire.html\">HERE<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>since it was air filled tires that made the\u00a0modern day diamond frame with its\u00a0smaller wheels faster and far more practical, few pneumatic tires made it on the HiWheel bike which went out of production in 1892. \u00a0This beautiful\u00a0<\/span><span>pneumatic Penny Farthing<\/span><span>\u00a0comes to us from\u00a0Robert Sterba and his amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sterba-bike.cz\/en\/?lang=EN\">museum<\/a> in\u00a0the\u00a0Czech Republic&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Per our report about how John Dunlop and the Irish killed the Hiwheel, HERE,\u00a0 since it was air filled tires&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/09\/16\/rare-pneumatic-hiwheel-found-in-czech-republic\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,1,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiwheel","category-uncategorized","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1tb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5667,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/19\/how-ireland-killed-the-hiwheel-the-story-of-the-tire\/","url_meta":{"origin":5653,"position":0},"title":"How Ireland Killed the HiWheel &amp; the Story of the Tire","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"July 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In 1887,\u00a0in Belfast, Ireland,\u00a0veterinarian, John Boyd Dunlop, outfitted his child's bike with tires that held air. Soon he convinced local Irish bike club cyclists to use his tire with tube configuration on bikes they could touch their feet to the ground on. 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