Mark Strang heads back to a classic Rome that, because of the evil Closers, isn’t quite our Rome.
The bicylce had wooden spoked wheels, but the tires were pretty obviously rubber. The “chain” was a knotted rope, which ran through large wooden pin gears, and it didn’t look like they’d developed the coaster brake yet, which may have explained why the helmet had a number of prominent dents.

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  1. Caesar’s Bicycle by John Barnes (HarperPrism, October 1997).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Barnes