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The Safety Bicycle

99% Invisible

CHAPTER

The Bicycle - The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Jody Rosen is the author of Two Wheels Good, The History and Mystery of the Bicycle. She says it took many centuries for kind of fate and trial and error to bring us the machine itself. It just feels like why wasn't there a bicycle that a farrover like a Roman was pedaling around on? Jody: You become one with the bike in some sort of Zen sense, you become inseparable from it.

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