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The Safety Bicycle

99% Invisible

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Bicycles - The Chinese Bicycle Industry

Bicycles are just part of Chinese culture and they were encouraged to be that way. In fact, there was like 1.5 bikes for every household in the country. There was a real concerted effort to turn it into a car culture at a certain point. Today China is the world's largest both manufacturer and consumer of cars. They developed a car culture which dwarfs that even of the United States.

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