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The article discusses the historic ride of Kirkpatrick Macmillan to Glasgow, Scotland where he was arrested after he mounted on the pavement of a village and a child who ran into his path fell to the ground. He is cited as the inventor of the world's first pedal bicycle or a velocipede. He was fined five shillings and was cheered as he left Glasgow. His velocipede design was acknowledged as original ten years after his death.