EAN: 9780099593591

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on Sunday A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine. 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. How has such a simple machine achieved so much? 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'. 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. 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. 'Funny precise surprising' Adam Gopnik 'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence' Economist 'Wry rich deeply researched' Patrick Radden Keefe

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