Throughout the 1800s, several improvements made these newfangled wheelchairs even better, like rear wheels and casters — which are wheels that can swivel like on a shopping cart.
With the choke full out, the engine answered at once to the starter and the roar drowned the faltering words of the commissionaire who jumped aside as the rear wheels whipped gravel at his piped trouser-legs.
“We have to attach tire chains to the rear wheel, otherwise it's very easy to lose balance when going up the unpaved paths that were at a near 90 degree angle, ” Li Lang, a 21-year-old motorcyclist, told local media.