We went from 60 thousand bicycles sold in 18 91 in the us. To over 800 million sold five years later. The funny thing is that it was so, it was such an intense period of bicycle mania, but it was so relatively short lived. You know, here in new york, we had the so called cony island bike path, which ran from prospect park all the way to coney island. It's an extraordinary period, and one that some that's, that's fondly recalled now, but at the time was really a period of culture war.
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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