<div>This lively and lavishly illustrated book tells the extraordinary history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. Recounting a story replete with disputed patents, brilliant inventions, and missed opportunities, David Herlihy shows us why the bicycle captured the public's imagination and the myriad ways it has reshaped our world. <br> <br>“A comprehensive genealogy of the two-wheeled savior of mass transit. . . . Herlihy takes what could have been just another history book and makes it a story worth telling your friends about.”—<i>Publishers Weekly</i>      <br><br>"Fun and informative."—<i>Baltimore</i><i> Sun</i> <br><br>“Immensely absorbing.”—Edward Koren, <i>New York Times Book Review</i><br>"Lovingly written and beautifully illustrated."—David Schoonmaker, <i>American Scientist</i> <br><br>“A delight.”—Robert Messenger, <i>Wall Street Journal</i> <br>“Herlihy has traced the bicycle's family tree with a thoroughness reminiscent of Laura Hillenbrand and her thoroughbred, Seabiscuit. . . . <i>Bicycle</i> is a good read for all and a must for the cyclist's home library.”—Joe Simnacher, <i>Dallas Morning News<br></i><br>"[One of] the best cycling-related books I've seen in the past decade."—Joe Lindsey, <i>Mountain Bike</i><br> <br>Winner of the 2004 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Award Competition in the History of Science category<br><br>Winner of the Society for the History of Technology's 2005 Sally Hacker Prize <br> <br><br><br></div>