The Annie Londonderry story is one which begins on the website as a 'did you know' question. And it's a question that most people would have to honestly answer 'no' to: Did you know that the first woman to cycle around the world was a Jewish mother from Boston?

See, told you.

Using Annie Londonderry Kopchovsky's remarkable feat as a backdrop this site serves as a historical tale and examination of the role of the bicycle within the women's suffrage movement (as well as being an advert for Peter Zheutlin's book on Annie, Around the World on Two Wheels). But it's a story that deserves being told.

That all of this took place beginning in 1894 only serves to highlight the scale of the achievement, and that it all began with a wager hints at a certain foolhardy determination. The wager wasn't just to cycle round the world within 15 months either, it was to do so and earn at least $5000 en route. This was beomcing not just a test of what many thought would be a physical challenge beyond a woman, but a social challenge on the ability of a woman to make her own way through the world without need of a man.