The cultural history of the bicycle

He recently turned 200 on the bike. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of how much we could or should know about bicycles on the occasion of our 200th anniversary. You would deserve it better than all other means of transportation. Who would have thought that the usual means of transport known to our boredom today can be attributed, among other things, to a volcanic eruption - and that its impact on culture is also comparable to an explosion? Based on a number of 19th and 20th century documents (newspaper articles, memoirs, cycling textbooks), the author shows how users and spectators, fans and critics have reacted to a vehicle that has run into a dizzying trajectory over the past two centuries. The journey from treadmill to e-bikes has radically transformed the lives of not only women, craftsmen, the medical community, sportsmen or churchmen, but even horses or barbers. The author talks about this professionally, with a soft humor, who at the same time reveals several sensationalist fakes in his gap-filling book.