"Women on Wheels: The Bicycle and the Women???s Movement of the 1890s explains how the bicycle was a major tool in the American Suffragette Movement.From the Article: Cycling in the 1890s was nothing less than 'a general intoxication, an eruption of exuberance like a seismic tremor that shook the economic and social foundations of society and rattled the windows of its moral outlook.' 2 Nowhere wa" . . . .