||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Future Shock - Victorian Style|By David Wineberg|Bicycles were the high tech mystery of life when they first came out. People were baffled by them. They took courses in how to use them, They wrote stories about their experiences. Doctors told of dire consequences from riding them. Men wore bowler hats and wool suits tailored specially for the ride. Cycling – The Craze of||"Forget the Christmas crackers – give everyone one of these beauties." — Ian Sansom, The Guardian|||About the Author|Charles Spencer owned a shop on Old Street selling equipment for the bu
The first bicycle was invented at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1890s that the craze really took off. This brought with it the fears, scaremongering, worries and uncertainties that inevitably accompany any new fashion. Women (often unchaperoned and oddly dressed) taking to "velocipedes"; overexertion; the possibility of heart disease - these are just some of the fears that haunted the establishment in the late nineteenth century... But...
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