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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**»Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales» Mail on SundayA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.A toy, a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance: the bicycle has been many things to many people over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of transport in the world. How has such a simple machine achieved so much?Combining history, travelogue and memoir, Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous vehicle from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a »green machine». Readers meet unforgettable characters: women»s suffragists who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity.By examining the bicycle»s past and peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance.»Funny, precise, surprising» Adam Gopnik»Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence» Economist»Wry, rich, deeply researched» Patrick Radden Keefe
