Margaret Guroff

A nicely done history on the advent of the bicycle up to modern times. It leans toward explaining and projecting how the bike not only changed transportation and the lives of people but led the way in so many radical innovations we now take for granted.

One such leadership role was interestingly enough in the pioneering of air flight. The Wright brothers of course come to mind and were in fact bicycle mechanics from Ohio who engineered that first airplane from ideas honed in the making of bicycles of that time.

The book wraps up with how in todays market the bicycle continues its boom and bust cycle and reinvents itself every so many years to adapt to changing trends and desires in society. Anyone who rides can see however that despite changes the core of the bicycle remains and that is maybe what makes it so appealing in the overly high tech world of ours.… (meer)