Bicycle mania in the 18 nineties was met with a moral back lash of incredible dimensions. The bicycle produced nothing short of moral panic, like a moral panic akin to those that have anied such things as jaz oror rock and roller. You had people decrying the bike as a threat to t the nuclear family, causing divorces right and left. It was thought to be a cause of white slavery. That is, women were being, were being led to moral ruin through the bicycle. This was one of the things that was posited during this time. So so, yes, the bicycle mania was met by a moral back lashes of incredible dimensions - it's just