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Re:Cyclists - 200 Years on Two Wheels (Paperback)
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Re:Cyclists - 200 Years on Two Wheels (Paperback)
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List price R393
Loot Price R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
You Save R37 (9%)
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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. Twentieth-century cycling was
very different, and even more popular. It became the sport and the
pastime of millions of ordinary people who wanted to escape the
city smog, or to experience the excitement of a weekend's racing.
Cycling offered adventure and independence in the good times, and
consolation during the war years and the Great Depression.
Re:Cyclists tells the story of cycling's glories and also of its
despairs, of how it only just avoided extinction in the motoring
boom of the 1960s. And finally, at the dawn of the 21st century, it
celebrates how cycling rose again - a little different, a lot more
fashionable, but still about the same simple pleasures that it
always has been: the wind in your face and the thrill of
two-wheeled freedom.
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