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How The Bicycle Changed The World For Women
In 1897, Cambridge students lined the streets to protest a vote that would grant women the right to earn a degree at their prestigious all-male university. The budding shitheads of the turn of the century launched rockets, threw eggs and hanged an effigy of the powerful “New Woman” from a building and subsequently mutilated it…
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I Sold Two Horrible Old Schwinns To Buy A New Bike And By Complete Chance It’s Another Horrible Old Schwinn
After months of searching, I sent $215 to a guy I had never met, for a bike I had never seen with my own two eyes, 4,828 km from my apartment. A good question would be: why?