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jackvalentine on Sept 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: 134.5 kg Concrete Bike [video]

My uneducated and probably missing a piece understanding is it was the other way around: good roads were demanded by and built for the cyclists.

I wonder how serious the improvements in rubber (esp. vulcanisation in the 1830s) were for the practicality of bicycles.

aortega on Sept 1, 2022 [–]

Bicycles were invented before tires, they were called boneshakers for that reason.

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