200 Years of Cycling

The Bike Show Podcast from Resonance FM by Jack Thurston

Apr 6, 201738:51Sports & Recreation

This year marks 200 years since Karl Drais invented a two wheeled 'running machine'. Since then all sorts of people have ridden all sorts of bicycles for all sorts of reasons. Looking back at two centuries of cycling and...

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