Photo: e-Sbírky, National Museum – Historical Museum, CC BY 4.0 DEED
On November 16, 1880, the Czech Velocipedists’ Club was established in Prague’s Smíchov district. It was the very first cycling club in the territory of what was then Austria-Hungary. It was founded by brothers Josef and František Kohout, sons of a Smíchov factory owner, who first saw a bicycle thanks to an English visitor. Their enthusiasm launched not only bicycle production in Bohemia but also organized cycling life.
The first bicycles appeared in the Czech lands as early as 1867, in the form of heavy wooden machines nicknamed “boneshakers.
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