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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by Armisael16 on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:42PM (#21974311)
No. Bicycles were heavy, uncomfortable products for the first ~40 years of their existence. Rubber tires and pedals didn’t come to bicycles until the 1860s. By that point the US had >30k miles of extensively linking most of the northern states. The modern bicycle didn’t really come into being until the 1890s.

I’m having a hard time getting numbers for track in Europe, but the UK was the real pioneer and Germany followed quickly.

Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by jv22222 on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:54PM (#21974417)
Well, clearly, wherever I heard that from was a terrible source of information! I stand corrected!