By Patricia Villers
Register Staff
Eighteen enthusiastic cyclists pedaled Sunday morning from the New Haven Green to Veterans Park in Ansonia next to City Hall to honor Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle.
Lallement, a Frenchman, was living in Ansonia in 1865 when he invented the modern-day bicycle.
He received a patent for his invention in 1866, and pedaled the bicycle from Ansonia to New Haven that year.
The approximately 12-mile ride from downtown New Haven to downtown Ansonia was one of 12 free bike tours planned during New Haven’s 15th annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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