Author : Mike Burrows
Publisher : Snowbooks Cycling
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Bicycles
ISBN : 9781905005680
Mike Burrows is a legend and this is the long awaited masterwork - revised and updated in this new edition - from the world's most famous and irreverent bicycle designer and inventor.
Author : David J. Luebbers
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Bicycles
ISBN :
Author : Gunnar Fehlau
Publisher : Out Your Back Door
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Bicycles
ISBN : 9781892590589
There haven't been any general books about a whole amazing, creative side of bicycling: recumbents and HPV's. Finally, we have one! This book covers the colorful, diverse world of recumbents, including chapters on: History, Racing, Touring, Design, Physics, Home-building and much more. It has received rave reviews and is highly regarded by beginners and experts alike. It doesn't compare brand models, instead it gives pro's and con's and descriptions of all the features and options found on recumbents, and lets the reader decide what combination of options is best for them. The recumbent is the most diversely designed bike type and so deserves an open-ended way to evaluate the huge range of options without bias: this book meets that need. Includes many B&W photos with a 12-page color photo section; black-and-white text; color covers. This is an English edition of a German book.
Author : Carlo Mari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030505634
Through a historical analysis of the bicycle industry, this book explores how the bicycle was developed, manufactured and marketed, from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The author highlights the contributions made by the bicycle industry to marketing as it is understood today, tracing key innovations in product development and marketing. Addressing a gap in the literature, this book provides an insightful history of marketing practice for one of the most important products of the twentieth century.
Author : Jim Fitzpatrick
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780980748017
The landmark work in its field, this book chronicles the use of bicycles in warfare from the Boer War to Afganistan today. Heavily illustrated, it looks at the machine's adaptation and use by the Vietnamese, the Japanese, in the invasion of Malaya and Singapore, and by both the Allied and German forces in World Wars I and II.
Author : David J. Luebbers
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Bicycles and tricycles
ISBN :
Author : Allan Drummond
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1466896884
Pedal Power is a nonfiction picture book about the women and children who led the social movement that made Amsterdam the most bike-friendly city in the world! Cycling rules the road in Amsterdam today, but that wasn't always the case. In the 1970's, Amsterdam was so crowded with vehicles that bicyclists could hardly move, but moms and kids relied on their bicycles to get around the city. PEDAL POWER is the story of the people who led protests against the unsafe streets and took over a vehicles-only tunnel on their bikes, showing what a little pedal power could do! Author and illustrator Allan Drummond returns with the story of the people that paved the way for safe biking around the world.
Author : Andrew Ritchie
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1996-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801853036
World champion at 19 . . . One of the first black athletes to become world champion in any sport . . . 1-mile record holder . . . American sprint champion in 1898, 1899, 1900 . . . triumphant tours of Europe and Australia . . . Victories against all European champions . . . Until now a forgotten, shadowy figure, Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor is here revealed as one of the early sports world's most stylish, entertaining, and gentlemanly personalities. Born in 1878 in Indianapolis, the son of poor rural parents, Taylor worked in a bike shop until prominent bicycle racer "Birdie" Munger coached him for his first professional racing successes in 1896. Despite continuous bureaucratic—and, at times, physical—opposition, he won his first national championship two years later and became world champion in 1899 in Montreal. This beautifully illustrated, vividly narrated, and scrupulously researched biography recreates the life of a great international athlete at the turn of the century. Based on ten years of research—including extensive interviews with Major Taylor's 91-year old daughter—this is the dramatic story of a young black man who, against prodigious odds, rose to fame and stardom in the tempestuous world of international professional bicycle racing a century ago.
Author : Melissa Bruntlett
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610918797
The world is rediscovering the bicycle as a multi-pronged solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. The Netherlands has built an accessible cycling culture that cities around the world can learn from. Chris and Melissa Bruntlett share the incredible success of the Netherlands through engaging interviews with local experts and stories of their own delightful experiences riding in five Dutch cities. Building the Cycling City examines the triumphs and challenges of the Dutch while also presenting stories of North American cities already implementing lessons from across the Atlantic. Discover how Dutch cities inspired Atlanta to look at its transit-bike connection in a new way and showed Seattle how to teach its residents to realize the freedom of biking, along with other encouraging examples.
Author : James Longhurst
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0295805994
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 the shared road. Bike Battles explores the different ways that Americans have thought about the bicycle through popular songs, merit badge pamphlets, advertising, films, newspapers and sitcoms. Those associations shaped the actions of government and the courts when they intervened in bike policy through lawsuits, traffic control, road building, taxation, rationing, import tariffs, safety education and bike lanes from the 1870s to the 1970s. Today, cycling in American urban centers remains a challenge as city planners, political pundits, and residents continue to argue over bike lanes, bike-share programs, law enforcement, sustainability, and public safety. Combining fascinating new research from a wide range of sources with a true passion for the topic, Longhurst shows us that these battles are nothing new; in fact they’re simply a continuation of the original battle over who is - and isn’t - welcome on our roads. Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNleJ0tDvqg
