Question

A good summary of "Going Down Hill On A Bicycle - A boys Song"

Answer 1

Remember that pneumatic tyres (air-filled tyres) were not invented until 1888. 

Before the invention of the pneumatic tyre, bicycle riding was very uncomfortable (early bicycles had almost no suspension) and riding at speed (above, say, 10 mph) was quite dangerous. 

Beeching's poem was written within a generation of the emergence of the bicycle as a viable means of travel. First generation mass-porduced bicycles were hugely cheaper than horses (the only common alternative form of local transportation), and downhill could get up to gallop speeds. 

The boy in this poem may never have traveled faster than 10 mph before. And before he had his bicycle, he could visit only places close enough to walk to. It is natural that he finds his bicycle as strange and as liberating as a magic carpet. 

People forget that the bicycle was the first important technology which made the world smaller. Railways, and motor cars, and aeroplanes would eventually arrive - but it was the bicycle that allowed ordinary people to travel for the first time in human history. 

We need poems like this to remind us what advanced technology the bicycle once was.

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