{"product_id":"two-wheels-good","title":"Two Wheels Good","description":"**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales'' Mail on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA toy, a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance: the bicycle has been many things to many people over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of transport in the world. How has such a simple machine achieved so much?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining history, travelogue and memoir, Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous vehicle from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a ''green machine''. Readers meet unforgettable characters: women''s suffragists who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy examining the bicycle''s past and peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Funny, precise, surprising'' Adam Gopnik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence'' Economist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Wry, rich, deeply researched'' Patrick Radden Keefe","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57065346531663,"sku":"9780099593591","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780099593591_1-two-wheels-good.jpg?v=1771446260","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/two-wheels-good","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}