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Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Provides a comprehensive guide to the sport for cyclists of all levels and includes information on getting started, buying gear, maintaining both road and mountain bikes, training for speed, racing techniques, understanding the rules of the road, and more.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike-and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force...
Author
Publisher
Portico
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Cycling is hugely popular nowadays. Since 2003 more than 100 million bikes have been produced each year, more than twice the amount of cars. And in 2011, more than 741,000 people cycled to work, an increase of 90,000 from 2001. The Splendid Book of the Bicycle is a wide-ranging celebration of the bicycle and cycling, incorporating social history, sport and science. It covers the bicycle's invention and subsequent historical development, stories of...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A perfect gift book for all cycling fans and beautifully illustrated by renowned cycling artist, Mark Fairhurst, P is for Peloton is packed with fun facts from the amazing to the bizarre, and stories about the greatest riders in the sport. Ever wanted to know the difference between your flamme rouge and your lanterne rouge? This is the book for you--or the cycling obsessive in your life.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
BikeSnobNYC reaches the final frontier of cycling: riding with the family. As his choice to take to the road with his toddler son in tow is met with bewilderment and disapproval from onlookers and the occasional motorist, he ponders why it's such a taboo.
Author
Publisher
Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The first cookbook of its kind, The Culinary Cyclist is a gorgeous staple for any kitchen where bicycling and healthy, delicious food are priorities. This lovingly illustrated cookbook is your guide to hedonistic two-wheeled living. Recipes are all gluten free and vegetarian. Decadent basics such as a creamy sea salt chocolate cake and baked eggs in avocado halves are paired with cheerful instructions for gracefully hosting a dinner party, gifting...
14) Cycling science
Publisher
Human Kinetics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Authoritative, yet accessible, this guide provides the latest on science and technology from the world's top cycling coaches and researchers. Comprehensive and cutting edge, coverage includes the rider-machine interface, environmental stressors, health issues, the planning of training programs, racing techniques, and more.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
©[2020]
Language
English
Description
"More than a century after they first entered the mainstream, bicycles and the culture around them are as accessible as ever-but for women, that progress has always been a struggle to achieve, and even now the culture remains overwhelmingly male. In Revolutions, author Hannah Ross highlights the stories of extraordinary women cyclists and all-female cycling groups over time and around the world, and demonstrates both the feminist power of cycling...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
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.
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