The History of the Bicycle

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Bike was invented in 1885, the same year that karl bens created his first motor wagan in a car prototype. The idea to line up one wheel in front of the other is like an archimedes eureka moment. There's no good reason why people shold, someone shouldn't have come up with this first. But it took one, one man's eureKA moment to kind of bring us the actual bicycle - or proto bicycle.

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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