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I am reading Kiipps by H.G. Wells. It must be one of the earliest books to feature bicycles. Kipps' friend starts a business hand building bicycles. Early on Kipps' get run over by a cyclist.
Have read some of the last one. Available for free on project gutenberg i think.5 years earlier is ‘3 Men on the Bummel” by Jerome K Jerome. It’s a follow up to “3 Men in a Boat” and features the same protagonists. It’s some time since I read it but I remember thinking that there was a lot in cycling that hadn’t changed in the last 100+ years.
H. G. Wells wrote a “Wheels of Chance” 10 years before “Kipps”. I haven’t read it yet
5 years earlier is ‘3 Men on the Bummel” by Jerome K Jerome. It’s a follow up to “3 Men in a Boat” and features the same protagonists. It’s some time since I read it but I remember thinking that there was a lot in cycling that hadn’t changed in the last 100+ years.
H. G. Wells wrote a “Wheels of Chance” 10 years before “Kipps”. I haven’t read it yet
First published 1887.Maybe cheating slightly, as it's a book specifically about cycling rather than a work of fiction featuring cycling, but here's the title page of my copy of the Badminton Library on Cycling. It's a second edition, 1889. I don't know the date of the first edition, but it probably wasn't more than a few years earlier. As it says, numerous illustrations; 18 full page plates, and probably about 60 "woodcuts in text" (seriously, woodcuts?).
Altogether fascinating to dip into.
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