Read the excerpt from Chapter 4 of Wheels of Change. Which central idea is developed by the quotation in the
last sentence?
Bicycle racing on an indoor track could be a thrilling
sport for spectators, who sat outside the oval, so close
to the cyclists that they could see their sweat. More than
7,000 people watched the night Frankie Nelson set her
18-hour record in Minneapolis, and a good number of
those in the stands were female. "Men go to see what
their brothers can do in the way of athletics," the St. Paul
Daily Globe pointed out during that race. "Why shouldn't
women be interested in their sisters?"
O More women than men gathered to watch cyclists
compete on indoor racing tracks.
O Women were a large part of the popular bicycling
movement that occurred in the 1880s and 1890s.
O Men did not believe that women should race bicycles
or gather to watch bicycle races.
O Bicycle races that occurred on indoor tracks were a
thrilling sight for the crowds that gathered.