# Two Wheels Good

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- Book: [Two Wheels Good](https://www.bookquiver.com/jody-rosen/two-wheels-good) ([Two Wheels Good.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jody-rosen/two-wheels-good.md))
- Authors: [Jody Rosen](https://www.bookquiver.com/jody-rosen)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9959-359-1
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2023-08-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** 'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on Sunday A 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