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The Guardian Archive Longread. Hi, I'm Jody Rosen, the author of Bicycle Graveyards.

Why Do So Many Bikes End Up Underwater, which was published in The Guardian Long Read in 2022.

I originally wrote the piece as a chapter for my book, Two Wheels

Good, The History and Mystery of the Bicycle. One of the things I tried to do in that book is to

come at this topic from odd angles. There's a vast literature on the bicycle, but I wanted to

excavate some lesser known episodes, maybe fill in a few

gaps that I saw in bicycle historiography. Bicycle history is often quite sentimental and even

romantic. We tend to depict the bicycle as a kind of redemptive green machine, you know, the pokey little 19th century

vehicle that could save the world from environmental collapse, if only all of us would give up

motorized four-wheeled transport for the pedal powered two-wheeled kind. People who write about

bikes are generally people who really love bikes.

I love bicycles, too, but I was interested in exploring some darker or more ambivalent aspects

of the bicycle's story past and present. So I began to research and report on this practice

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