ignores, without giving justification, alternative possible explanations of the initial failure of bicycles poses a question that has little relevance to the argument's conclusion presumes, without giving justification, that fads are never indicative of genuine acceptance offers no support for the claim that the Draisienne was the first true bicycle
The first bicycle, the Draisienne, was invented in 1817. A brief fad ensued, after which bicycles practically disappeared until the 1860s. Why was this? New technology is accepted only when it coheres with the values of a society. Hence some change in values must have occurred between 1817 and the 1860s.
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