Velocipede used in a sentence

Velocipede in a sentence as a noun

The velocipede had already been around for nearing a couple of decades.

It was still called "velocipede" in France, but in the United States, the machine was commonly called the "bone-shaker".

> The lack of oats to feed horses may have inspired the German inventor Karl Drais to research new ways of horseless transportation, which led to the invention of the draisine or velocipede.

Fact:> However, after marketing the velocipede, it became apparent that roads were so rutted by carriages that it was hard to balance on the machine for long, so velocipede riders took to the pavements and moved far too quickly, endangering pedestrians.