Cycling category: 1003 books
by Len Forkas
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
When entrepreneur Len Forkas learned that his nine-year-old son had leukemia, his own life changed forever. In 2003, Len founded Hopecam, a nonprofit that uses technology to connect young cancer patients with their friends at school. Ten years later, Len’s fight against childhood cancer...
by Michael Ames
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
CRUISERS offers and insider's look at the latest and greatest cruiser bicycle styles and designs, and provides tips on how people can trick out their own bikes to proclaim their individuality. It also tells the unique history and development of cruiser bikes, from their pre-World War II origins to...
Reg Harris
The rise and fall of Britain's greatest cyclist
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Reg Harris, whose statue overlooks the Manchester Velodrome, is the legend who all track cyclists want to emulate. He was a poor, working-class boy born in the Depression who escaped the Lancashire mills to utterly dominate his sport. He triumphed as world champion an incredible
five times between...
No Limits
The powerful true story of Leah Goldstein-World Champion Kickboxer, Ultra Endurance Cyclist, Israeli Undercover Police Officer
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Having faced fear many times, Goldstein has learnt that no matter how genuine the actual danger we confront may be, we have two choices: fight or flight. Yet, some of us have fallen into a third, much more dangerous category, by simply freezing. We do nothing, and therefore risk neither failure nor...
by Bradley Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
On July 22, 2012, Bradley Wiggins made history as the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France. Ten days later, at the London Olympic Games, he won the time trial to become his country’s most decorated Olympian. In an instant, “Wiggo”—now Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins—became a national...
Metal Cowboy
Ten Years Further Down the Road Less Pedaled
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
~ One of the greatest books on bicycle touring ever written. ~
Insightful, humane, sublimely amusing—Metal Cowboy finds nobility in the common man, explains true bicycle-love, celebrates the beauty of the country, and charmingly relates encounters with malcontents and misfits. Most of all,...
The Mechanical Horse
How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience, and relative affordability of the bicycle. The earliest...
by Tim Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Tim Moore and a rickety metal steed are back together—riding the entirety of the Iron Curtain, where history, mechanical failures, physical endurance, and humor come together for "the Bill Bryson on two wheels."
Not content with tackling the Italian Alps or the route of the Tour...
Fifty Bicycles That Changed the World
Design Museum Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Design Museum brings you fifty bicycles that changed the world we live in!
The bicycle is the world's most popular form of transport. From the penny-farthing, the Dandy-horse and the Velocipede the design of the bicycle has evolved over the decades both in terms of style and technology....
Just Ride
A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
“A wonderfully sane, down-to-earth, and frequently funny guide to riding, maintaining, fixing and enjoying your bicycle.”
Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review
Winner Silver Medal 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards
In the same way that Michael Pollan’s slim bestseller Food...
Mountain Bike Master
Essential Skills and Advanced Techniques Made Easy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Ride faster, better, and stronger with professional mountain bike skills guide Mark Langton. Mountain Bike Master is a practical and inspiring guide that begins with the fundamental skills like shifting, braking, and climbing. Simple moves such as correcting seat-height adjustment and learning how...
The Mountain Bike Experience
A Complete Introduction to the Joys of Off-Road Riding
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1996
In this fun, friendly primer, Dave King, acknowledged as a mountain biking "guru" by Sports Illustrated, opens the sport to everyone--young or old, athletic or not. Along the way, you'll discover how to keep fit, enjoy the great outdoors, and even change your outlook on life's everyday challenges.
With...
by Brian Lopes
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
If you want to ride like a pro, you should learn from a pro! In Mastering Mountain Bike Skills, Third Edition, world-champion racer Brian Lopes and renowned riding coach Lee McCormack share their elite perspectives, real-life race stories, and their own successful techniques to help riders of all...
Living on Two Wheels 2nd edition
How to be green and lean on your bicycle machine
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Dennis Coello is the author of numerous bike books and videos. He writes for major bike magazines, conducts bike clinics across the USA and has traveled around the world on nothing but a bicycle. Dennis owns no car and lives his life entirely on a bike.
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