The Bicycle Bubble: When Victorian Britain Lost Its Mind Over Bikes | Sleepy Stock Market

Fall asleep to the extraordinary story of the Great British Bicycle Bubble of the 1890s — the moment Victorian Britain went completely mad for cycling stocks, and one of the most forgotten financial manias in history.In the mid-1890s, the bicycle was the internet of its day. Hundreds of companies floated on the London Stock Exchange almost overnight. Fortunes were made, promoters grew fabulously rich, ordinary investors piled in — and then it all collapsed. Ernest Terah Hooley, the era's most flamboyant company promoter, made and lost millions in the frenzy.This is the story of Britain's first tech bubble — decades before Silicon Valley was even a dream.🎧 Best listened to with headphones or a sleep speaker at low volume.⏱ Designed for long, relaxed listening — no ads, no hype, just the story.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#BicycleBubble #VictorianHistory #StockMarketHistory #FinancialHistory #MarketBubble #ErnestHooley #SleepStories #FallAsleep #SleepyStockMarket #InvestingHistory #BritishHistory #VictorianBritain #MarketCrash #financialbubble 0:00 The Streets of Victorian London8:00 The Tyranny of Horse & Rail17:00 Starley & the Rover Revolution28:00 Innovation Ignites a Nation38:00 Freedom on Two Wheels48:00 The Midlands Boom Begins57:00 Enter Ernest Hooley1:07:00 The Bubble Inflates1:17:00 Mania at Its Peak1:25:00 The Crash & Its Aftermath1:32:00 Lessons from the Mania