Cycling category: 1003 books
by Scott David Plumlee
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Come join me for this 50-image photo journal as I cycle and hike across New Zealand. In this 22nd volume I will be cycling south with some new friends to Fox Glacier. I white-knuckled a very steep descent from Arthur's Pass down to the west coast highway, where we surprisingly served as first...
Fitter, Further, Faster
Get Fit for Sportives and Road Riding
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In the same way as mass-participation events in running have captured the public imagination, cycling events in which everyone can take part have burgeoned in popularity since they were first introduced in the UK in the late 1990s, with a raft of events now covering a range of distances, many selling...
by Peter Ballin
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The bicycle is an amazing contraption. It costs nothing to power, is good for your body and does no harm to the environment. Most importantly however, it can give you the freedom to travel wherever you would like to go. The bicycle has been constantly evolving throughout its history. It has become...
by Graham Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
In 2014 I set out to tell the BACK-STORY of the Tour de France cycling race, in pictures.My journey started in the Jura Mountains of eastern France bordering Switzerland and Germany, at the beginning of the Mountain Stages, and ended on the Champs-Élysées in Paris 16 days later.Having...
by George B. Thayer
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
"Pedal and Path - Across the Continent A Wheel and A Foot" is a fascinating and entertaining account of the author's seven-month trip across America. From the highlands of the Hudson river to the sprawling suburbs of Denver, the travails and vicissitudes of the author's two-wheeled adventure are here...
Touring Tales
A Cycle Touring Box Set
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Get four inspirational cycle touring books in one! Cycle Touring For Beginners will inspire confidence to the most bicycle-shy, and if you need more encouragement, three tales of cycle tours in France and Wales will have you hankering to dust off your wheels and take to the road.
Cycle Touring...
Riding into Battle
Canadian Cyclists in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
The untold story of how Canadian Cyclists came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War.
Canada’s Cyclists spent most of the First World War digging trenches, patrolling roads, and delivering dispatches. But during the Hundred Days campaign at the end of the Great...
Legends of the Tour
The Hottest, Toughest and Fastest Riders of this Decade
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Tour de France is a phenomenon of such scale that it transcends sport. Whether you are mesmerised by the scenery, captivated by its sporting drama or spellbound by the sheer athleticism of the riders, the Tour de France is one of sport’s most compelling events. It’s a race of mythical...
by Francis G. Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This is a vintage treatise on the use of a bicycle ergometer in the measurement and the computation of the amount of energy used by the human body. At its core, it is an exploration of the mechanical efficiency of the human body as a machine, as well as a technical manual for the calibration and use...
by Dennis Bailey, Keith Gates
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Ben je niet bang voor vieze handen en houd je van fietsen? Deze handige pocket vertelt je alles wat je moet weten om je fiets in topconditie te houden en allerlei kleine en grote reparaties zelf uit te voeren. Ook lees je hoe je door regelmatig onderhoud de levensduur van je fiets verlengt, het comfort...
Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition
Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Finding Ultra is an incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever
On the night before he was to turn forty, Rich Roll experienced a chilling glimpse of his future. Nearly fifty pounds overweight and unable to climb the stairs without...
Seven Deadly Sins
My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The basis for the upcoming major motion picture The Program directed by Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena), starring Chris O'Dowd as journalist David Walsh and Ben Foster as Lance Armstrong.
When Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France in 1999, the sports world had found...
Major
A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of handsome, lightning-fast racers won the hearts and minds of a bicycling-crazed public. Scientists studied them, newspapers glorified them, and millions of dollars in purse money was awarded to them. Major Taylor aimed to be the fastest of them all. A prominent...
by Giacomo Pellizzari
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Il “Cannibale” Eddie Merckx, il più forte di tutti, e il “Pirata” Marco Pantani, un magnifico testardo che ci ha lasciato troppo presto. Beppe Saronni e la perfetta strategia della fucilata di Goodwood, Claudio Chiappucci e l’impresa tutta istinto del Sestrière. L’indisciplinato Peter...