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The Safety Bicycle
99% Invisible
The Bicycle Fade and Its Importance
In the 1890s, the bicycle had so many enemies. There were preachers and clergymen who invade against the bicycle from the pulpit. Even barbers said that their business was being ruined by the arrival of the bicycle because nobody wanted to shave anymore. A lot of pseudo-medical ideas circulating about the bicycle in this period.
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