{"product_id":"two-wheels-good-jody-rosen-9780099593591","title":"Two Wheels Good","description":"**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**\n'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on Sunday\nA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.\nA 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?\nCombining 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.\nBy examining the bicycle's past and peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance.\n'Funny, precise, surprising' Adam Gopnik\n'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence' Economist\n'Wry, rich, deeply researched' Patrick Radden Keefe","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49909473149216,"sku":"9780099593591","price":11.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780099593591.jpg?v=1768262817","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/two-wheels-good-jody-rosen-9780099593591","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}