--- What an impressive list of books. And then there's
"Iron Riders: Story of the 1890s Fort Missoula Buffalo Soldiers Bicycle Corps" by George Niels Sorenson
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"The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well." Ivan Illich ('Energy and Equity')1974