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  1. Renaissance

    10/10 How innovations in design and changing social tastes mean the bike is back in fashion.

  2. Rise and Fall

    9/10 How increasing prosperity and car ownership challenged the bicycle's popularity in the 60s

  3. Frugal Years

    8/10 How the bicycle thrived during wartime, leading to a golden age of cycling in the 1950s.

  4. Between the Wars

    7/10 How mass produced bicycles brought freedom of the road to the working classes in the 1930s

  5. Cycling Soldiers

    6/10 How the bicycle was used in war, when thousands signed up to join cyclist battalions.

  6. The Open Road

    5/10 Martin Ellis catches up with famous early cyclists Edward Elgar and Vaughn Williams.

  7. Politics, Liberation and Emancipation

    4/10 How the bicycle became a tool for political pioneers, from suffragettes to socialism.

  8. British Genius

    3/10 The development of the safety bicycle allowed the wealthier classes to take to the road.

  9. Faster Than Legs

    2/10 Martin Ellis explores how Victorian ingenuity allowed the evolution of the bicycle.

  10. The Most Civilised Conveyance

    1/10 From the beginning the bicycle has been far more than just a means of transport.