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Tim Talks Bicycles with Patented

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Rally Chopper

The rally bike became this great badge of it was almost like the peacock's feather. I had a tomahawk tomo junior chopper, which didn't have the gears. In china in the 19 70s and 19 eightis, people would talk about the four possessions that you could have as a household: sewing machine, radio, wrist watch and bicycle. And if you had all four of those, you had the four possessions then you you had made it. But yes, the conversation we're having here sounds very parochial, but in fact, thiss this is really universal.

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