Bicycling Through Time
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Bicycling Through Time
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Author : Paul & Charlie Farren
language : en
Publisher: Images Publishing
Release Date : 2013-07-19
Bicycling Through Time written by Paul & Charlie Farren and has been published by Images Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-19 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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Two Wheels Good
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Author : Jody Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2022-05-24
Two Wheels Good written by Jody Rosen and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with History categories.
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world “Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike—and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, journalist and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity’s life and dream life—and a flash point in culture wars—for more than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen’s book sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle’s saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a “green machine,” an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle-rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world’s fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle’s past and peers into its future, challenging myths and clichés while uncovering cycling’s connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel—a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.
On Bicycles
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Author : Evan Friss
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-07
On Bicycles written by Evan Friss and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with History categories.
Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York’s streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city’s first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle’s place in city life have been so persistent not just because of its many uses—recreation, sport, transportation, business—but because of changing conceptions of who cyclists are. In On Bicycles, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared. It has been central, as when horse-drawn carriages shared the road with bicycle lanes in the 1890s; peripheral, when Robert Moses’s car-centric vision made room for bicycles only as recreation; and aggressively marginalized, when Ed Koch’s battle against bike messengers culminated in the short-lived 1987 Midtown Bike Ban. On Bicycles illuminates how the city as we know it today—veined with over a thousand miles of bicycle lanes—reflects a fitful journey powered, and opposed, by New York City’s people and its politics.
Bicycle
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Author : David V. Herlihy
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Bicycle written by David V. Herlihy and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In this, the ultimate history of the bicycle, David Herlihy recounts the saga of this far-reaching invention and the passions it aroused. The pioneer racer insisted the bicycle would become "as common as umbrellas." Mark Twain was more skeptical, enjoining his reader to "get a bicycle. You will not regret it-if you live." Herlihy shows readers why the bicycle captured the public's imagination and the myriad ways in which it reshaped the world.
Bicycling Through Space And Time
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Author : Mike Sirota
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03
Bicycling Through Space And Time written by Mike Sirota and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03 with categories.
TAKE A WILD RIDE ALONG THE ULTIMATE BIKE PATH! It's a long way from Southern California to a cosmic theme park in the outer reaches of the galaxy. Piece of cake for Jack Miller, whose 21-speed mountain bike has a 22nd gear, embedded there by an alien Study Group, which gives him access to the Universe's greatest bicycling artery, the mhuva lun gallee. Along the way Jack will find numerous "gates" that will lead him to: an encounter with a kid named Adolf Hitler; a descent to the Fourth World of the Navajo; a visit with his favorite deceased singer in the Rock-and-Roll Afterward; and so much more. The outrageous Bicycling Through Space and Time is the first of a series.
Around The World On A Bicycle
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Author : Fred A. Birchmore
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2020-05-01
Around The World On A Bicycle written by Fred A. Birchmore and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-01 with Travel categories.
This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle tells of a young cyclist’s ever-changing and maturing worldview as he ventures through forty countries on the eve of World War II. It is an exuberant, youthful account, harking back to a time when the exploits of Richard Byrd, Amelia Earhart, and other adventurers stirred the popular imagination. In 1935 Fred A. Birchmore left the small American town of Athens, Georgia, to continue his college studies in Europe. In his spare time, Birchmore toured the continent on a one-speed bike he called Bucephalus (after the name of Alexander the Great’s horse). A born wanderer, Birchmore broadened his travels to include the British Isles and even the Mediterranean. After a lengthy, unplanned detour in Egypt, Birchmore put his studies on hold, pointed Bucephalus eastward, and just kept going. From desert valleys to frozen peaks, from palace promenades to muddy jungle trails, Birchmore saw it all on his eighteen-month, twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey. Some of the people he encountered had never seen a bike—or, for that matter, an Anglo-European. As a good travel experience should, Birchmore’s trip changed his outlook on strangers. Always daring, outgoing, and energetic, he now saw an innate goodness in people. In between bone-breaking spills, wild animal attacks, and privation of all kinds, Birchmore learned that he had little to fear from human encounters. That he traveled through a world on the brink of global war makes this lesson even more remarkable—and timeless.
The Enlightened Cyclist
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Author : Bike Snob NYC
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2012-03-09
The Enlightened Cyclist written by Bike Snob NYC and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The author of Bike Snob helps bike commuters transcend common obstacles and handle cars, pedestrians, and other cyclists with grace. The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts every year. But as fresh-faced cyclists fill the roads, they also encounter their share of frustrations—careless drivers, wide-flung car doors, zoned-out pedestrians, and aggressive fellow cyclists, to name a few. In this follow-up to Bike Snob, BikeSnobNYC takes on the trials and triumphs of bike commuting with snark, humor, and enthusiasm. He asks the question: If we become better commuters, will that make us better people? From the deadly sins of biking to tactics for dealing with cars, pedestrians, and other cyclists, this primer on bike travel is a must-read for cyclists new and seasoned alike.
In The City Of Bikes
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Author : Pete Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-04-16
In The City Of Bikes written by Pete Jordan and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Bicycling Big Book Of Cycling For Women
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Author : Selene Yeager
language : en
Publisher: Rodale Books
Release Date : 2015-09-15
The Bicycling Big Book Of Cycling For Women written by Selene Yeager and has been published by Rodale Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
It's a fact: Women are built differently than men. That means that women's bodies react differently to training, nutrition, and sometimes even riding itself. Yet most bicycling books are written without addressing any of these differences. This comprehensive cycling book addresses how to gear up and prepare for any goal--whether you want to ride for pleasure, complete your first 100 miles, or line up at a race. Top professional cyclist Selene Yeager has teamed up with the editors of Bicycling magazine to create The Bicycling Big Book of Cycling for Women, an easy-to-follow instructional manual geared specifically toward women and their unique needs. It breaks down the sport of cycling into easily digestible sections, beginning with the history of women's cycling and progressing into equipment, lifestyle, technique, training, fitness goals, nutrition, maintenance, and more. The book also includes a women-specific section regarding hormones and exercise performance, cycling while menstruating, cycling while pregnant, how menopause affects your training, and how specific parts of the female body are uniquely affected by cycling. The Bicycling Big Book of Cycling for Women is an indispensible, lifelong guide for every female cyclist.
Bicycling Through Space And Time
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Author : Mike Sirota
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Bicycling Through Space And Time written by Mike Sirota and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fiction categories.
There's not much to distinguish ordinary Jack Miller from the millions of other thirtysomething divorced guys in southern California--except his new lottery prize: a 21-gear mountain bike that has a 22nd gear. When Jack uses that particular gear, it shifts him onto the cosmic expressway that cuts across the universe.