Cycling category: 1003 books
Lance Armstrong
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
BACK ON THE BIKE
LANCE ARMSTRONG is the premier cyclist in sports history. But the road to victory has not been smooth, which makes his story all the more compelling. In 1991 he was the National Amateur Cycling Champion, and a professional career seemed guaranteed. But a grim diagnosis of cancer in...
by Jeff Stone
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Jake explores his super-smart, sneaky Jackal side in the final installment of this high-octane, page-turning series!
After all the excitement and danger he and his friends survived in California, Jake just wants to chill out and ride his bike. Then he gets an offer he can’t refuse—the chance...
The World's Fastest Man
The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure—the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era.
In the...
American Pro
The True Story of Bike Racing in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Like Phil Gaimon’s best-seller, Pro Cycling on $10 a Day, Smith traces the arc of one team’s racing career.
Reveals the struggles of U.S. bike racing teams in the post-Lance Armstrong era.
Release timed with Paris-Roubaix and the beginning of the U.S. domestic racing and peak riding season.
The Power Meter Handbook
A User’s Guide for Cyclists and Triathletes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In The Power Meter Handbook, Joe Friel offers cyclists and triathletes a simple user’s guide to using a power meter for big performance gains.
In simple language, the most trusted coach in endurance sports makes understanding a power meter easy, no advanced degrees or tech savvy required.
Cyclists...
Bad Blood
The Secret Life of the Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
For Jeremy Whittle, there isn't much in life as spectacular as the Tour de France: sweat-streaked, taut and burnished athletes toiling across vast and ancient European landscapes, hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route. And then there are the riders: men of almost superhuman capabilities,...
by Jill Homer
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Jill Homer, a newspaper editor in the isolated, soggy hamlet of Juneau, Alaska, has an outlandish ambition: Racing a mountain bike 2,740 miles from Canada to Mexico along the Continental Divide. Her preparation plans are equally ambitious: A 350-mile winter bicycle race on Alaska’s frozen Iditarod...
Life Is a Wheel
Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Life Is a Wheel chronicles the cross-country bicycle trip Bruce Weber made at the age of fifty-seven, an “entertaining travel story filled with insightful thoughts about life, family, and aging” (The Associated Press).
During the summer and fall of 2011, Bruce Weber, an obituary writer...
Ride
From ultra-cycling rookie to racing across America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
At his brother's wedding in 2002, 30-year-old Josh Kench sat with a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other, and announced that he was going to do the Coast to Coast. His pronouncement was met with derision, but he's proved his doubters wrong.
Josh won the 2010 Lake Taupo Extreme Enduro,...
Words to Ride By
Thoughts on Bicycling
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Notable luminaries throughout history have been inspired and humbled by the simple joy of riding a bicycle. For centuries, this powerful connection between people and bikes has driven humans forward as inventors, travelers, and thinkers. From Susan B. Anthony and Mark Twain to Eddy Merckx and Greg...
Cycle of Lies
The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall.
In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version...
by Matthew Finkle, Brittain Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Cycling is about joy. Sure, it takes willpower, strength, and grit, but at its core, being on a bike is all about rejoicing in the greatest transportational invention in history. I Love My Bike is a photographic celebration of the grand kinship of bicycles, a bond shared by millions of people around...
Field of Fire
The Tour de France of '87 and the Rise and Fall of ANC-Halfords
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
In 1987, a British-based team competed in the Tour de France for the first time in almost two decades. The ANC-Halfords squad were decimated by the punishing pace, the manager walked out during one of the Alpine stages, five of the nine riders and some of the staff never made it to Paris, and most...
Bike Battles
A History of Sharing the American Road
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
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...