The bicycle has come a long way from its wooden-wheeled, pedal-free ancestors. What started as a strange contraption that ...

This nicely balanced coffee-table volume (featuring 250 color and 50 black & white photographs) from the editors of one of the sport's premier magazines covers more information in its six chapters ...

Jody Rosen, author of "Two Wheels Good," on the history of the bicycle and how it shaped the world - Victorian suffragettes, Bangladeshi rickshaw drivers, and urban yuppies. The Atlantic, Going ...

Bicycles were invented in 1817 by German inventor Karl von Drais. Since then, they've grown to become the most popular form of transportation (besides walking) worldwide. For many, bicycles are a ...

Back in the late 2000s, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was the world’s coolest neighborhood. And if lifestyle blogs were to be believed, everyone in Williamsburg rode a bike. But not everyone in New York did ...

Two Wheels Good. By Jody Rosen. Crown; 416 pages; $28.99. To be published in Britain by Bodley Head in August; £25 In 1896 one of Joseph Pulitzer’s most influential newspapers, the World, reported a ...

The Elmhurst History Museum’s new summer exhibit, “The Bicycle: Two Wheels to Adventure,” is an ideal fit for Elmhurst, where bike routes crisscross the city for travel ranging from family outings to ...

“Places of Invention,” the latest exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, opens at the National Museum of American History July 1. It examines six ...