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 muchCombining 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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099593591Number of pages: 416Weight: 330 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 25 mm
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'When I fell in love with riding a bike in New York City last year,what I found myself craving was a history-of the bicycle... that whoever wrote this history would find a way to make it personal and ruminative... Lo and behold: Jody Rosen has written that very book. My wish has come true and a door's been blown open. I got more than I knew I wanted.'- The New York TImes
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