Muscle on wheels : Louise Armaindo and the high-wheel racers of nineteenth-century America / M. Ann Hall.

The majestic high-wheel bicycle, with its spider wheels and rubber tires, emerged in the mid-1870s as the standard bicycle. A common misconception is that, bound by Victorian dress and decorum, women were unable to ride it, only taking up cycling in the 1880s with the advent of the chain-driven safe...

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