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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world.
''The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across the centuries and around the globe, through startling history and vivid first-person reporting.'' - Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain
The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike - and nearly everyone does.
In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity''s life and dreamlife, and a flashpoint in culture wars for more
