Urban Biking Handbook The DIY Guide to Building Rebuilding Tinkering & Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living by Charles Haine
Publisher Comments Ever wanted to take a bicycle vacation? Go on a bike date? Convert your beater into a fixie? Or are you just curious about the anthropology of urban cycling culture? The Urban Biking Handbook teaches you the anatomy of your bike, how to dismantle it, how to reassemble it, how to make it pretty, how to make it ugly... and most importantly, how to make it yours. Bike your way through car-jammed cities, under overpasses, and over the hills and far away to a cyclist’s paradise. - Learn to repair a flat, modify your handlebars, true your wheel, and fix your bike on the fly.
- Not just for gearheads: Learn about what to wear, what to eat, how to pack, and how not to get doored.
- Want to build your own bike? Get started with fully photographed tutorials and inspiration from the bike lovers profiled inside.
Get your bike on with The Urban Biking Handbook! Your price $12.95 Used Flexible
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Custom Bicycles A Passionate Pursuit by Christine Elliott
Synopsis The product of a worldwide search for the most influential custom-bike makers on the planet, this volume showcases a wonderful collection of expertly honed machines, built by the most creative bicycle makers in the world. It highlights the range of techniques, materials, and design elements.
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Chainbreaker Bike Book: A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance by Shelley Lynn Jackson, Ethan Clark
Publisher Comments Meant to be a friendly gateway into the world of fixing your not-so-brand-new commuter bike, this bicycle repair manual is hand illustrated and conversationally toned. It also reprints the original four issues of the Chainbreaker zines, whose masters were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina flooding. Trade Paperback
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Bicycling Science 3rd Edition by David Gordon Wilson
Publisher Comments The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it uses human muscles in a near-optimum way. This new edition of the bible of bicycle builders and bicyclists provides just about everything you could want to know about the history of bicycles, how human beings propel them, what makes them go faster, and what keeps them from going even faster. The scientific and engineering information is of interest not only to designers and builders of bicycles and other human-powered vehicles but also to competitive cyclists, bicycle commuters, and recreational cyclists. Your price $14.95 Used Trade Paperback
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Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles Craftsmanship Elegance & Function by Jan Heine
Publisher Comments The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles is a celebration of the design history and craftsmanship behind this simple but efficient two-wheeled vehicle. Featuring fifty classic models built by hand, this book unveils the bicycles technical evolution within a historical context. Beautifully detailed are early-twentieth-century models with multi-gear systems, mid-century machines where war and postwar economy challenged craft and utility, as well as modern and contemporary bicycles. Featured artisans and brands include La Gauloise, Reyhand, Schulz, Barra, Alex Singer, and René Herse. With brilliant full-color images of each model and chronological text detailing the craftsmanship that went into producing these elegant machines, this book will appeal to bicycle enthusiasts and to anyone interested in design. Hardcover
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Dancing Chain History & Development of the Derailleur Bicycle by Frank J Berto
Synopsis Unlike other bicycle history books, which cover only the first 100 years, this book deals extensively with the second century of bicycle development. It traces the development of the modern derailleur bicycle from its crude beginnings right up to the most modern mountain bikes and road racing bicycles. This thoroughly updated and expanded edition includes over 100 additional illustrations and hundreds of text corrections and updates.
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Atomic Zombies Bicycle Builders Bonanza by Brad Graham
Publisher Comments ATOMIC ZOMBIE'S BICYCLE BUILDER'S BONANZASUPERBIKES (FOR STINGY BUDGETS) For bicycle lovers, tinkerers, and inventors, this dream resource offers hours of fun, creativity, and adventure. If you have standard workshop tools, Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builder's Bonanza provides everything else you need to create cool custom bicycles on a shoestring budget. Youll find exciting plans for choppers, low racers, tallbikes, recumbents, tandems, and others that defy description. You'll learn how easy -- and cheap -- it can be to build machines with names like Marauder, Sky Cycle, and Hammerhead -- to construct bicycles whose profiles will make you gasp -- and to make your own recumbent bike that can speed along at 80 kph on the flats. This book shows you how to build them all, complete with photos and detailed instructions! Written by long-time bike hobbyist and inventor Brad Graham, founder and host of the atomiczombie.com bicycle builder's Web site, and creator of the world's tallest bike, this value-packed, heavily illustrated manual offers an exciting range of resources from complete custom bike plans to details on working with tools and customizing bikes you already own. Look inside for all the help you need with: * Getting parts for free, or almost free * High-speed recumbent low racer with hydraulic disc brakes * A two-headed winter-ready mountain bike * A bicycle so tall that you have to duck under power lines * Ultralong fork choppers with loads of attitude * A rugged all-terrain mountain tandem * Pedal-powered vehicles that seem to defy the laws of physics * Customizing details, such as getting a smooth paint job and removing rust from old chrome * And much, much more! Your price $11.50 Used Trade Paperback
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Framing Production Technology Culture & Change in the British Bicycle Industry by Paul Rosen
Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;The production of bicycles in Britain and the United States recently suffered severe setbacks. The renowned American Schwinn brand was downgraded to the mass market by its new owners following bankruptcy, and Britain's Raleigh came close to closure because of high debts and poor returns, saved only by a last-minute management buyout. In both cases, market share and credibility were lost to newer, more innovative firms, as well as to a recentering of the global bicycle industry in the Far East.This book reflects on such changes by setting them within a sociological and historical context. It focuses on the British bicycle industry in the interwar years and in the 1980s and the 1990s--periods characterized by modernization of production and of industrial organization, by changing relations among players in the industry, by new developments in labor relations, and by changes in interactions between markets and product design. In particular, it traces the fortunes of the Raleigh Cycle Company from its beginnings as an innovative young firm, through massive expansion of its products and markets and the assimilation of many of its competitors, into further innovation amid market contraction and management inertia, and finally into a phase of global restructuring that has transformed and reduced its role within the industry.The book explores the complex ways in which product design, production methods, industrial organization, and the cultures of cycling have interacted to create a succession of sociotechnical frames for the bicycle. At the same time, on an activist level, the book promotes a participatory politics of bicycle technology and a less car-centered view of personal transportation.andlt;/Pandgt; Trade Paperback
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Human Powered Home Choosing Muscles Over Motors by Tamara Dean
Publisher Comments The Human-Powered Home is a level-headed book which focuses on informing and entertaining. There is no utopian hyperbole, just useful facts and anecdotes that provide the foundation necessary to take appropriate action. Dean has produced an accessible primer for novices in the area of people power as well as a book that is thorough enough to benefit even experienced tinkerers. - Joel Gillespie, Momentum Magazine Tamara Dean, author of The Human Powered Home, doesn't want anyone to get the wrong idea. Creating one's own power is not an easy undertaking. But it can be very energizing. The bicycle is the real hero in the book. There are photos and descriptions of dozens of jury-rigged devices, built to do everything from wash clothes to make soap to power laptops. While it's a thorough guide for confident do-it-yourselfers, the book also details how pedal and treadle power can make life-changing differences globally. - Marsha Walton, Mother Nature Network What if I could harness this energy? An unusual question for anyone putting in a long stint on a treadmill perhaps, yet human power is a very old, practical, and empowering alternative to fossil fuels. Replacing motors with muscles can be considered a political act--an act of self-sufficiency that gains you independence. The Human-Powered Home is a one-of-a-kind compendium of human- powered devices gathered from a unique collection of experts. Enthusiasts point to the advantages of human power: Portable and available on-demand Close connection to the process or product offers more control Improved health and fitness The satisfaction of being able to make do with what is available This book discusses the science and history of human power and examines the common elements of human-powered devices. It offers plans for making specific devices, grouped by area of use, and features dozens of individuals who share technical details and photos of their inventions. For those who want to apply their own ingenuity, or for those who have never heard of human-powered machines, this book is an excellent reference. For those who are beginning to understand the importance of a life of reduced dependency on fossil fuels, this book could be a catalyst for change. Tamara Dean is a technical and environmental writer who lives in Wisconsin, where she and her partner David human-power their grain mill, blender, coffee grinder, and assorted electrical gadgets. Your price $15.95 Used Trade Paperback
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Paterek Manual For Bicycle Framebuilders 3rd Edition by Tim Paterek
Publisher Comments The Paterek Manual for Bicycle Framebuilders flows from Tim Patereks history as a rider, racer, bike mechanic, custom framebuilder, and teacher. This Third Edition is completely rewritten to include feedback from Tims experiences teaching student builders. The book lets the reader see what custom frame design and building are all about. The reader can use this Manual to build his or her own bike, or begin a lifelong pursuit of custom bicycles and their riders.
This book documents one builders lifelong approach to custom bicycle design and building, and reflects his devotion to teaching about framebuilding. The Paterek Manual will have a well earned place in the history of custom bicycle building in America.
Your price $150.00 Used Trade Paperback
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