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| Author | : Richard Ballantine |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Bicycles |
| ISBN | : 9780330377171 |
A comprehensive guide to choosing, buying and owning a bicycle. In addition it contains sections on riding in traffic, cross-country, competition riding, and the history and politics of cycling.
| Author | : Evan Friss |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2021-01-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022675880X |
As Evan Friss shows in his mordant history of urban bicycling in the late nineteenth century, the bicycle has long told us much about cities and their residents. In a time when American cities were chaotic, polluted, and socially and culturally impenetrable, the bicycle inspired a vision of an improved city in which pollution was negligible, transport was noiseless and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country blurred. Friss focuses not on the technology of the bicycle but on the urbanisms that bicycling engendered. Bicycles altered the look and feel of cities and their streets, enhanced mobility, fueled leisure and recreation, promoted good health, and shrank urban spaces as part of a larger transformation that altered the city and the lives of its inhabitants, even as the bicycle's own popularity fell, not to rise again for a century. --Publisher's description.
| Author | : Jonathan Kennett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780995137660 |
| Author | : Robert Penn |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2011-04-26 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1608195767 |
Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he rides to get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to travel, to go shopping, to stay sane, and to skip bath time with his kids. He's no Sunday pedal pusher. So when the time came for a new bike, he decided to pull out all the stops. He would build his dream bike, the bike he would ride for the rest of his life; a customized machine that reflects the joy of cycling. It's All About the Bike follows Penn's journey, but this book is more than the story of his hunt for two-wheel perfection. En route, Penn brilliantly explores the culture, science, and history of the bicycle. From artisanal frame shops in the United Kingdom to California, where he finds the perfect wheels, via Portland, Milan, and points in between, his trek follows the serpentine path of our love affair with cycling. It explains why we ride. It's All About the Bike is, like Penn's dream bike, a tale greater than the sum of its parts. An enthusiastic and charming tour guide, Penn uses each component of the bike as a starting point for illuminating excursions into the rich history of cycling. Just like a long ride on a lovely day, It's All About the Bike is pure joy- enriching, exhilarating, and unforgettable.
| Author | : David Rapley |
| Publisher | : Images Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1864704829 |
Features racing bikes from the last 100 years. Spectacular photography of racing machines from the Tour de France, the Olympics and World Championships, as well as bikes for everyday use. This breathtaking new Compilations gathers a hand-picked selection of bicycles from Europe and Australia, and documents developments in technology and style over the past century. Racing bikes integrate form and function and the results are often surprisingly elegant, as well as practical, whether for cycling in competition or for pleasure. The racing bikes contained in this book range from unused models to well-ridden but lovingly restored machines from early-20thcentury models featuring wooden wheel rims, to the latest in carbon-fibre and titanium technology.
| Author | : Chris Boardman |
| Publisher | : Pier 9 |
| Total Pages | : 960 |
| Release | : 2017-01-03 |
| Genre | : Bicycles |
| ISBN | : 9781760295806 |
1001 Bikes to Dream of Riding Before You Diecelebrates the designs and individual stories behind the world's most influential, ground-breaking and high-profile bicycles.
| Author | : James Longhurst |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2015-04-15 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0295805994 |
Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road. Bike Battles explores the different ways that Americans have thought about the bicycle through popular songs, merit badge pamphlets, advertising, films, newspapers and sitcoms. Those associations shaped the actions of government and the courts when they intervened in bike policy through lawsuits, traffic control, road building, taxation, rationing, import tariffs, safety education and bike lanes from the 1870s to the 1970s. Today, cycling in American urban centers remains a challenge as city planners, political pundits, and residents continue to argue over bike lanes, bike-share programs, law enforcement, sustainability, and public safety. Combining fascinating new research from a wide range of sources with a true passion for the topic, Longhurst shows us that these battles are nothing new; in fact they’re simply a continuation of the original battle over who is - and isn’t - welcome on our roads. Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNleJ0tDvqg
| Author | : Marla Streb |
| Publisher | : Rodale |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1594861846 |
Provides a guide to achieving the one-hundred-mile-per-day biking goal, sharing counsel on how to customize a fitness-based training plan, select a bicycle and equipment, and use fueling and hydration strategies.
| Author | : Pete Jordan |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 2013-04-16 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0062100645 |
Pete Jordan, author of the wildly popular Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, is back with a memoir that tells the story of his love affair with Amsterdam, the city of bikes, all the while unfolding an unknown history of the city's cycling, from the craze of the 1890s, through the Nazi occupation, to the bike-centric culture adored by the world today Pete never planned to stay long in Amsterdam, just a semester. But he quickly falls in love with the city and soon his wife, Amy Joy, joins him. Together they explore every inch of their new home on two wheels, their rides a respite from the struggles that come with starting a new life in a new country. Weaving together personal anecdotes and details of the role that cycling has played throughout Dutch history, Pete Jordan’s In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist is a poignant and entertaining read.
| Author | : Frances Elizabeth Willard |
| Publisher | : Fair Oaks Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
A nineteenth century leader of the women's reform movement describes how, at thirty-three, she learned to ride a bicycle
