of Joseph Pulitzer’s most influential newspapers, thereported a classic tabloid story about a broken home. “Henry Cleating and his wife once lived happily together…but now they have gone to the divorce court,” the paper relayed, “and all on account of her bicycle and bright red bloomers.” Cleating was upset because his wife was “taking long bicycle rides and neglecting her household duties”.
Nevertheless, though every business student knows how Henry Ford brought motoring to the masses, and how that development changed society, far fewer people realise quite how transformational the bicycle has been. At the end of the Victorian age, for instance, it allowed young women to get about alone, permitting an age of sexual liberation long before the pill.
Road-hogging, fume-spewing motorists may not realise it, but they too owe their preferred means of travel to cyclists. Air-inflated rubber tyres were first invented to be used by bicycles, not cars. Ford’s first car was called a “quadricycle”, and it was the League of American Wheelmen that pushed for the first nationwide network of roads in their country.
I don’t even read these Articles, I just know that They’re True from the Axiomatic Titles. I love that “The Economist” is always Interesting Enough to be as intriguing as Clickbait, without the Runaround Impotence of actually being Clickbait.
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No, it isn’t. Toast is. Toast keeps you alive. Toast is versatile. Comes in many varieties. Is delicious. The bicycle is a stepping stone to proper transport, and exists to annoy normal people on Sundays as people that shouldn’t wear Lycra ponce about Surrey. Choose toast.
They're a form of transportation that tires you out and makes your legs sore. If anything, they're overrated. Horses and carriages are underrated.
Hans Rosling knew though… 😉 theroutetoeconomicsuccess
The press on the on the other hand is humanity´s most overrated one.
You know what will help the bicycle be humanity’s most underrated invention, better!?... Sending money to Ukraine! All the hipsters are doing it, so should you! Help the bicycle be humanity’s most underrated invention better, send money to Ukraine!
Caricaturing with bike is playing with your health, sit your behind in your car and don't complain about fuel prices.
not retweeting cuz you demand payment to read the content ~ cool pic though
From the prices and s of bicycles today I would argue they are not underrated.
hence the Dutch have ca 130 per 100 citizens
Bicycle 🚴♀️ is the Hero for the health & Zero on packet TUMInitiative
Apparently, you've never seen sliced bread
E-motion technology is great for bikes. Make energy commuting or recreation. It’s a choice.
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