‘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...
‘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 ...
