Two Wheels Good Quotes

“The issues that preoccupy bicycle advocates in the West—bike commuting as a planning priority and “lifestyle choice”—have little connection to the reality of the hundreds of millions for whom cycling is simply a necessity, the only viable and affordable means of travel.”
― Jody Rosen, Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

“Soon word began to filter south that the whole enterprise was a fool’s errand, that all the gold-rich territory had been claimed, that the only people getting wealthy in the Klondike were the early stakeholders and entrepreneurs who had established businesses catering to the gold rush hordes. One of these was Frederick Trump, Donald Trump’s grandfather, an immigrant who had dodged the draft in Germany, fled to the United States, and made a small fortune opening hotels in the Yukon riverbank towns of Bennett and Whitehorse.”
― Jody Rosen, Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

“cycling is a nonstop exercise in crash prevention,”
― Jody Rosen, Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

“For three straight years—1972, 1973, and 1974—bicycles outsold cars in the United States.”
― Jody Rosen, Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle