Two Wheels Good
Two Wheels Good A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine. How has such a simple machine achieved so much? A toy, a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance: the…
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Two Wheels Good
A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine. How has such a simple machine achieved so much? A toy, a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance: the bicycle has been many things to many people over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of transport in the world.
Readers meet unforgettable characters: women's suffragists who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity. Combining history, travelogue and memoir, Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous vehicle from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine'. By examining the bicycle's past and peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance.
Two Wheels Good