An interesting piece of Bicycle History

Originally, the bicycle was designed to replace the horse teams on stagecoaches. It was concluded that horses were lazier and more stubborn than humans, and they ate too much. After the mayor of a prominent U.S. city (which shall remain nameless) grew tired of stepping in horse excrement he organized a competition to come up with a better means of propulsion for the coaches.

The bicycle won the competition. Of course! Bicycles are awesome. Originally the front wheel was made so large to more easily accommodate the rough terrain. After months of application -- and realizing that people had a harder time staying balanced than dealing with bumps -- they brought the wheels to a more appropriate, and equal, size for human riders.

When one cyclist was not even capable of getting the coach to move, they attempted to use a team of cyclists -- the resultant lack of coordination and repeated collisions inspired the adaptation of a superior form of cumulative human power.

After complete and total failure with this attempt as well, the whole idea was abandoned, and the horse was welcomed back with open arms and dirty boots -- and the bicycle was deemed better as a personal mode of transportation.

This, of course, has been a total farce; I hope you enjoyed. However, if you believed it was historically accurate, I would be happy to make a more compressed graphic version  illustrating the story, so you can share it on Facebook.