i would have liked to have tried riding one of these things. Strangely enough, i ran into one here in brooklyn,. on the brooklyn water front, rick, right near pure five and brookleoa. And he was kind of peddling around, he's the guy i should have said, hey, wait, get off that thing.
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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