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Jun 2013
20m 23s

Boys of Summer: The Bike Perfecter

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In the third Boys of Summer installment, Cristen and Caroline hat tip JK Starley, the engineer who invented the bicycle as we know it today, and explain how the bicycle was a transportation revolution for women.

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