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What is the bicycle in the City of Davis logo?
Info:The bike depicted in the city's logo is variously referred to as a highwheel, highwheeler, ordinary, or penny-farthing. In the journal, The Wheelmen, the official publication of collectors, riders and aficionados of antique bikes, these machines are most often called highwheels.
They get this name for obvious reasons -- the rider sits up so high. The highwheel evolved from bikes with more equally sized wheels. The quest for speed and efficiency led to the larger front wheel -- the only way to give the bike a higher gear before the use of chain drives and sprockets.
You can read more at http://www.city.davis.ca.us/topic/bicycles.cfm
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