i don't feel good when i'm not on one, most of the time. The bicycle is a machine that's sort of ideally tailored to the human form. And i'd like to think of it as less a vehicle than a prosthesis. It feels a little bit like your, you know, im trene, i make my way through quicksand as i go about my day.
Jody Rosen is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and a bike nut who has just published a rousing (and sometimes arousing) book called “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.” Today, he takes us on a rollicking ride through the two-wheeled revolution, revealing the surprising ways bicycles have shaped the world in which we live.
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