RE: Cyclists: 200 Years on Two Wheels

by Michael Hutchinson

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472925602
• ISBN13: 9781472925602
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.7"