Two Wheels Good av Jody Rosen

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<p><b>**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**<br><br>''Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales''<i> Mail on Sunday</i></b><br><br><b>A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.</b><br><br>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?<br><br>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.<br><br>By examining the bicycle''s past and peering into its fu