tricycler

Updated: July 23, 2026

While walking down Parliament Street my attention is called to a venerable-looking gentleman wheeling briskly along among the throngs of vehicles of every description, and I am informed that the bold tricycler is none other than Major Knox Holmes, a vigorous youth of some seventy-eight summers, who has recently accomplished the feat of riding one hundred and fourteen miles in ten hours; for a person nearly eighty years of age this is really quite a promising performance, and there is small doubt but that when the gallant Major gets a little older say when he becomes a centenarian he will develop into a veritable prodigy on the cinder-path!

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 : From San Francisco to Teheran