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"Graduating" from two wheels to four in Germany.

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An ad showing prices for Pope's bicycles in the 1890s.

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Division of Labour.—It is not the business of ducal footmen to clean the family bicycles. The ladies Ermyntrude and Adelgitha have to do it themselves.

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Selling the romantic possibilities of two-wheeling: “Discover the Swinging World of Yamaha” (1966).

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Early bicycle paths: Riverside Drive in New York, Harper’s Weekly, 1895.

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The popular press mounted campaigns against “scorchers” in 1895.

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