Germany: a nation of cyclists

The cliché: your average German loves their car more than anything. But actually, they love their bicycles even more. Karl Freiherr von Drais designed a free-wheeling bicycle 200 years ago in southwestern Germany, his contribution to what would become the bicycle’s international success story.
https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/life/sports-leisure/the-bicycle-is-200-years-old
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