Its All about the Bike by Robert Penn, Rob Penn
Publisher Comments Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. He rides to get to work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to travel, to go shopping, and to stay sane. Hes no Sunday pedal pusher. So when the time came for a new bike, he decided to pull out all the stops and build his dream machine. Its All About the Bike follows Penns journey, but this book is more than the story of his hunt for two-wheeled perfection. En route, Penn brilliantly explores the culture, science, and history of the bicycle. From the United Kingdom to California, via Portland, Milan, and points in between, his trek follows the serpentine path of our love affair with cycling. On the way to building the perfect bike, Robert Penn brilliantly explains why we ride. Your price $11.95 Used Hardcover
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Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (with a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy
Publisher Comments NCSS—Notable Social Studies Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2012 School Library Journal Best Books of 2011 Finalist YALSA Excellence in Non Fiction for Young Adults SLJ’s 100 Magnificent Children’s Books of 2011 Amelia Bloomer List Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used the bicycle to improve their lives. Witty in tone and scrapbook-like in presentation, the book deftly covers early (and comical) objections, influence on fashion, and impact on social change inspired by the bicycle, which, according to Susan B. Anthony, "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." Your price $12.95 Used Hardcover
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Bike There 8th Edition by Metro
Description With Metro's eighth edition Bike There! map, you can explore 235 miles of off-street trails and over 600 miles of on-street bike routes.
The new map is printed on durable, waterproof paper and features:
* detailed commuter maps of downtown Portland and 21 area cities
* an expanded regional map that shows popular recreational cycling destinations
* new, more detailed street ratings
* elevation points and identification of steep slopes
* light rail, commuter rail, streetcar lines and stations to help you extend your ride with transit.
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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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Joyride Pedaling Toward A Healthier Planet by Mia Birk
Publisher Comments Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet is pioneering transportation leader Mia Birk’s 20-year crusade to integrate bicycling into daily life. With a table scrap of funding, she led a revolution that grew Portland, OR into the #1 American cycling city.
Through a panoply of hilarious and poignant stories, Birk takes readers on a 20-year rollercoaster journey of global and local discovery and education, while bringing into sharp focus some of the planet's most pressing and hotly debated energy and environmental issues,policies, shortcomings, and solutions.
The journey begins in the heart of car culture U.S.A. with Birk's car-addicted youth in Dallas, TX. As Birk breaks away from home and a typical sedentary American lifestyle, she settles in Portland, OR, where she and a cast of larger-than-life characters lead Portland's transformation into the nation's most bicycle friendly city. You'll learn about the foibles, motivations, passion, and surprising compassion of the people who decide what a city will become, the battles they fought, their triumphs, failures, and results.
After leading the Portland revolution, Birk hits the road, spreading her vision from the California suburbs to the Cascade foothills, the beaches, plains, large cities, small towns, ex-urbs, and the heartland of rural America. Careening towards big obstacles, getting scraped and bruised by political glaciers, she overcomes old ways of thinking and finds ways to make communities -- even Dallas -- more human, healthy, safe, and splendid.
Written as a stylistic blend of memoir, rollicking stories, and lessons, Birk shows that bicycling can be a significant and incredibly positive means of transportation and an economic powerhouse for businesses who are realizing the health, safety, economic, environmental, and livability benefits of integrating bicycling and walking into daily life.
While many books today extol the pain of our world’s traffic congestion, air quality, and economic, safety, land-use, and health problems, Joyride is the antidote, offering hope to any and everyone interested in changing our world for the better, one pedal stroke at a time. Your price $8.95 Used Trade Paperback
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Lost Cyclist the Epic Tale of an American Adventurer & His Mysterious Disappearance by David Herlihy
Publisher Comments In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling around the world. He finally got his chance by recasting himself as a champion of the downsized "safety-bicycle" with inflatable tires, the forerunner of the modern road bike that was about to become wildly popular. In the spring of 1892 he quit his accounting job and gamely set out west to cover twenty thousand miles over three continents as a correspondent for Outing magazine.
Two years later, after having survived countless near disasters and unimaginable hardships, he approached Europe for the final leg. He never made it. His mysterious disappearance in eastern Turkey sparked an international outcry and compelled Outing to send William Sachtleben, another larger-than-life cyclist, on Lenz's trail. Bringing to light a wealth of information, Herlihy's gripping narrative captures the soaring joys and constant dangers accompanying the bicycle adventurer in the days before paved roads and automobiles. This untold story culminates with Sachtleben's heroic effort to bring Lenzs accused murderers to justice, even as troubled Turkey teetered on the edge of collapse. Your price $13.95 Used Hardcover
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Brew to Bikes Portlands Artisan Economy by Charles Heying
Publisher Comments Dissatisfied with passive consumption, many residents of Portland, OR take matters into their own hands. Associate Professor of Urban Studies Charles Heying noticed these local artisans prospering all over the city and set out to study their thriving economy. Profiling hundreds of local businesses, and with an eye on Portland's unique penchant for sustainability and urban development, Brew to Bikes is about everything from bike manufacturers to microbreweries, from do-it-yourself to traditional crafts. A treatise to local, ethical business practices, Brew to Bikes positions Portland as a hub of artisan ingenuity worthy of admiration. Your price $7.95 Used Trade Paperback
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Bicycling & the Law Your Rights as a Cyclist by Bob Mionske
Synopsis According to statistics compiled by the League of American Bicyclists, more than 57 million Americans rode a bicycle in 2005. Of these, more than 9 million describe themselves as "active cyclists" -- weekend riders, off-road riders, commuters, and amateur and professional athletes. These 9 million face the daily hazards of commuting in traffic, overenthusiastic dogs, faulty roads, harassment, road rage, and bicycle theft. This book was written for them. Bicycling and the Law is designed to be the primary resource for cyclists faced with a legal question. It provides readers with information that can help them avoid many legal problems in the first place, and informs them of their rights, their responsibilities, and what steps to take if they do encounter a legal problem. This useful guide makes the law both entertaining and comprehensible, presenting an accurate and thorough explanation of the laws governing bicycles and the activity of bicycling. Trade Paperback
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Come & Gone by Joe Parkin
Publisher Comments After five years of busting my ass in the Belgian gutters, I said goodbye to Flanders knowing that I might never go back. I never did. I flew back to the U.S. with empty pockets and no contract. For several years, I was unable to watch a Belgian spring classic without a lump in my throat. I died a little bit watching my teammates in the Tour de France in 1992. Eventually, I landed a spot with the Coors Light team. After the years in Europe, though, racing in the U.S. didn’t really do it for me. I was never able to rise to the level of dedication I had mustered each day in Europe. Until I started racing mountain bikes. Come and Gone is the long-awaited sequel to Joe Parkin’s widely praised bestseller, A Dog in a Hat. Picking up the story, Come and Gone follows Joe through three hardscrabble seasons chasing wins on the U.S. road racing circuit before he changes course and tastes victory as a mountain bike pro. A gritty, authentic, and heartfelt personal memoir, Come and Gone is also a chronicle of the rebirth of professional bike racing in America. “Parkin shows you life on the edge of the peloton. We know the great champions’ stories, but Parkin’s experience is far more illustrative of what a ‘pro cyclist’ really is.” — PodiumCafe.com Trade Paperback
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