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The Bicycle with Tim Harford

Patented: History of Inventions

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The Rally Chopper

There was a kind of great currency as a kid growing up in the u k. About what bike you had. I had a tomahawk, tomahawks, junior chopper, tommi was like te grat bike. But didn't didn't have the gears. Yes, i the chopper had had three gears. And it's the bike as this symbol of of mobility. And i this prized possession. In fact, in china in the 19 70 19 eightis, people would talk about, this is deeply communist china, incredibly poor,. People talked about the four possessions that every household aspired to have. They were the sewing machine, a radio, a wrist

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