Bicycle Commuter's Pocket Guide

Author: Robert Hurst
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762756284
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 39

Book Description
As sensible as it may seem in an era when fuel prices are skyrocketing in tandem with environmental consciousness, a switch to bicycle commuting doesn’t necessarily happen overnight. Certain questions arise: Do I really need that $1,500 bike? Are Lycra shorts necessary? What about traffic rules? What to do when a tire blows? In The Bicycle Commuter’s Pocket Guide, veteran cyclist, bike commuter, professional messenger, and author Robert Hurst gives you all the answers you need for worry-free riding. The ultimate, practical miniguide to tips, tricks, technique, and gear Compact and user-friendly For riding to work, to the grocery store, or just around town Color photos and illustrations—plus a popout® map!

Bikenomics

Author: Elly Blue
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 1621069435
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Bikenomics provides a surprising and compelling new perspective on the way we get around and on how we spend our money, as families and as a society. The book starts with a look at Americans' real transportation costs, and moves on to examine the current civic costs of our transportation system. Blue tells the stories of people, businesses, organizations, and cities who are investing in two-wheeled transportation. The multifaceted North American bicycle movement is revealed, with its contradictions, challenges, successes, and visions.

Pocket Guide to Transportation

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description

Sloane's Complete Book of All-terrain Bicycles

Author: Eugene A. Sloane
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671675877
Category : All terrain bicycles
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
This book contains more than 300 photographs and 75 detailed drawings illustrating everything from helmets to handlebars and brake maintenance to off-road racing.

The Complete Book of Bicycling

Author: Eugene A. Sloane
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 554

Book Description
" ... revised and updated to include all-terrain bikes, bicycle safety, fitness and your bicycle ..."--Cover.

The Bicycle Commuting Book

Author: Rob Van der Plas
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description

Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance

Author: Lennard Zinn
Publisher: VeloPress
ISBN: 9781934030424
Category : SPORTS & RECREATION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From shifters to derailleurs, pedals to handlebars, this book covers every component of a road bike, lists the tools bike owners need to tackle simple and advanced projects, and demonstrates with 295 detailed illustrations how to work on each part.

100 Best Bikes

Author: Zahid Sardar
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781780670089
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A collection of the best and most popular bikes to be found anywhere right now, this book gives the overview of what is out there for every kind of cyclist. Whether you are a BMXtreme or mountain bike enthusiast, a keen tourer or racer, a city commuter or courier, or simply fascinated with the constantly advancing mechanics and engineering of folding and other innovative bike designs, this book has something for you. 100 Best Bikes is the essential resource for anyone wanting to know what is the best they can find now in design and engineering for every kind of bike.

Cycling for Sustainable Cities

Author: Ralph Buehler
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262362007
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 489

Book Description
How to make city cycling--the most sustainable form of urban transportation--safe, practical, and convenient for all cyclists. Cycling is the most sustainable mode of urban transportation, practical for most short- and medium-distance trips--commuting to and from work or school, shopping, visiting friends, going to the doctor's office. It's good for your health, spares the environment a trip's worth of auto emissions, and is economical for both public and personal budgets. Cycling, with all its benefits, should not be reserved for the fit, the spandex-clad, and the daring. Cycling for Sustainable Cities shows how to make city cycling safe, practical, and convenient for all cyclists.

Everything Bicycle Book

Author: Roni Sarig
Publisher: Everything
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Offers a comprehensive guide to bicycles, their repair, maintenance, and care, as well as hints on proper riding techniques, a discussion of safety issues, and bicycling history and trivia.