The Bicycle Book by Bella Bathurst

A lively blend of history, reportage, and personal reflection that explores how the bicycle has shaped lives, cities, and culture. It traces the machine’s evolution from Victorian contraptions to carbon-fiber speedsters, meets couriers, frame builders, racers, campaigners, and cops, and investigates design, maintenance, theft, and road politics. Above all, it captures the freedom, community, risks, and quiet exhilaration of life on two wheels.