books.google.ca - During the nineteenth century, the bicycle evoked an exciting new world in which even a poor person could travel afar and at will. But was the “mechanical horse” truly destined to usher in a new era of road travel or would it remain merely a plaything for dandies and schoolboys? In Bicycle: The History...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Bicycle.html?id=VDlaT0KxJfAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBicycle