What Was The Bike Boom – And Why Did It Matter?

From the mid-’60s to the early ’70s, the US experienced an unprecedented explosion in cycling popularity – known today as the “Bike Boom”. Rising steadily from 1965, bike sales doubled between 1970 and 1972 from 7 million and 14 million respectively. TIME magazine dubbed this period “the bicycle’s biggest wave of popularity in its 154-year … Continue reading What Was The Bike Boom – And Why Did It Matter?