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Re:Cyclists: 200 Years on Two Wheels


  • Bloomsbury
  • by Michael Hutchinson
Somewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest summer for centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more or less immediate. Re:Cyclists is the tale of the following two centuries. It tells how cycling became a kinky vaudeville act for Parisians, how it was the basis of an American business empire to rival Henry Ford's, and how it found a unique home in the British Isles.

ISBN 9781472925602 | E | PB
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Publisher Bloomsbury
ISBN 9781472925602
Author(s) Michael Hutchinson
Publication date February 2018
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 199 x 129 mm
Pages 352
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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'As if Bill Bryson had taken to two wheels' - FT

Somewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest summer for centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more or less immediate.

Re:Cyclists is the tale of the following two centuries. It tells how cycling became a kinky vaudeville act for Parisians, how it was the basis of an American business empire to rival Henry Ford's, and how it found a unique home in the British Isles.

The Victorian love of cycling started with penny-farthing riders, who explored lonely roads that had been left abandoned by the coming of the railways. Then high-society took to it - in the 1980s the glittering parties of the London Season featured bicycles dancing in the ballroom, and every member of the House of Lords rode a bike.