There are few American symbols more seemingly innocent than the bicycle, but when this newfangled contraption was introduced during the Victorian era, it sparked a moral panic that linked the invention to decaying cultural virtues and even to the devil himself. For this episode, Gabe Henry, humorist and author of Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell, tells me the very American story of the bicycle and the changing reactions it sparked over a surprisingly short period of time.

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