The Extraordinary Journey of the Bicycle | Full Documentary

Great video! I can honestly say that at age 66, I still get the same thrill riding my bike as I did when I was 10. One of mankind's greatest inventions, in my opinion!😎👍

I must say first time I have seen a show about bicycles my interest is my father repair bicycles his whole life he was the only one in the town of Rose Hall town in Guyana 🇬🇾 he love bicycles at that time The Raleigh bikes from England was the only brand we knew , he also refurbished the bikes when they get older, I wish he could see this documentary, when he came in Canada he got a job with Bloor bicycles to assemble the bikes for the store he was so happy because in North America there are no such jobs for repairing bikes and I also love bicycles because of my dad, he died two years ago and this documentary I dedicate to my father thank you for this I love it my logo is a bicycle 🚲🚲🚲🚲 thanks 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🚲🚲🚲

I still remember the day over 50 years ago when my parents took me to the store and I picked out my bike and we brought it home. Such a vivid image seared in my mind! No other purchase in my life has given me so much joy! I am 57 years old and rode 5000 miles on my bikes last year. The world’s greatest invention! ❤️🚴🏻‍♂️

This documentary has been a long time coming. I have been cycling off and on through out the years. I grew up in San Diego County in the 50s and 60s. The Beach Boys era. Once you hit 16, your cycling days were over. Could not afford the high cost of insurance, you were Sh*t out of luck. I started riding again when I got my first job at age 20. I lost my car 10 years ago, gave up my drivers license 2 years ago. I do not miss either one. To me, the bicycle is a new birth of freedom.

I'm 51 and still ride bmx every day. It keeps me very fit and never gets boring. I absolutely love it.🚲.

When my dad came home with my first bike over 50 years ago my life really took off. Thanks dad.

We've got the bikes. Now all we need is the infrastructure to allow us to ride safely, away from motor vehicles. I'm 75 and ride almost daily despite the risks of mixing it with death machines. It should not be like that.

I love bicycle. I still ride bicycle where ever I go. It is so much fun to cycle than to drive a car or bike.

As a long distance cyclist I can agree that bicycles are an amazing piece of technology.

Really enjoyed watching this I used to cycle a lot but at 58 I’ve got osteoarthritis and limited deflection of my knees,so I purchased an e-bike and I am back out there but having to have the saddle quite high because my right knee won’t bend past 90 I used to love watching the kids at Xmas on the new bikes sadly it’s a rare sight at Xmas nowadays it’s all game consoles and unfit kids ,let’s hope things turn round and the kids start asking for bikes again

It's crazy to think how many miles I've put on a bicycle. As an 80s-90s kid I'm one of the last of the bicycle paper boys. Now some one does the routes in a car. Try Sunday at 4am in January on a bmx bike with each paper weighing 5 pounds. But I had the sweetest wheels on my redline because of that job. Between my paper route and my lawnmower I was ballin

Pedal away on a bike and you are immediately transported back to the kid in you 🤗

As an enthusiastic rider foe 10 years, I can easily say that cycling has proved to be the best kind of exercise so far for me and other members of our cycling group. This humble machine is a low impact exercise we can go for daily. I started cycling after the gap of around 30 years and know I feel the healthiest than when I was 30 years or so. For me this relationship with cycle is same as people have for their horses. My typical monthly transport activity looks like this, car 50 kilometres, scooter 200 kilometres and cycle 1200 kilometres. I think anybody at any age start cycling.

Who would have believed that the pneumatic tyre was invented by a Scottish vet called Dunlop to help his sick son to have a more comfortable convalescence by bike! Fantastic!!!

The bicycle is a perfect invention for me. I use a regular and an E-bike daily. My regular bike for close disances like to the grocery store. My E-bike for distances up to 100km. The battery has 100km of range.

probably the most underrated invention ever made, the amount of distance you can cover on a bicycle is surprising , keeps you healthy , no fuel needed, doesn't create traffic, one of the most cost effective modes of transport.

Bicycle is my love. Wonderful topic. If you've got a short version, it would be great for promotion. I often share your longs and shorts. Love your work!

Not forgetting the impact on the gene pool. English villages are roughly three miles apart, so the furthest field was half that distance, giving an acceptable time to reach. It was usual to find a partner no further than the next village. The bicycle quadrupled that.

Great video, but an error: not all pedal assist e-bikes have the motor in a hub, a growing number of them have the motor between the pedals. In fact, these “mid-drive” e-bikes are almost always pedal assist, whereas hub-motor e-bikes often have a throttle to allow the rider to not pedal.

I enjoyed that, I do chuckle at "wheel builders" though' they love to make people think its some kind of dark art 🤣(its quite easy)