Download or read book Richard s Bicycle Book written by Richard Ballantine and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Richard s 21st Century Bicycle Book written by Richard Ballentine and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here you will find all kinds of cycles -- from tricycles to mountain bikes, and including cargo cycles, exotic superbikes and futuristic 70-mph vehicles -- as well as expert advice on buying the right bicycle and setting it up for maximum comfort and efficiency; thorough evaluations of anti-puncture tires, child seats, helmets, lights and much more.
Download or read book Richard s New Bicycle Book written by Richard Ballantine and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ultimate Bicycle Book written by Richard Ballantine and published by Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive visual reference guide for all cycling enthusiasts, The Ultimate Bicycle Book combines fascinating photographs of the most popular bicycles of today -- and tomorrow -- with invaluable step-by-step information on bicycle maintenance. Essential handbook Written by the world's best selling bicycle authors Richard Ballantine and Richard Grant, the Ultimate Bicycle Book shows you how to get the best from your bike and your body. They give tips on training for competition, advise you on what to wear, whether you're riding on or off the road, and guide you through the vast range of accessories available. Practical Maintenance The Ultimate Bicycle Book is packed with professional tips on repairing, cleaning, and fine-tuning your bicycle. Annotated photographs and detailed text explain the function of every moving part, from the headset-bearing arrangements common to all bicycles to hydraulic brakes.
Download or read book Richard s New Bicycle Book written by Richard Ballantine and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bicycle written by David V. Herlihy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century's "mechanical horse" offered an exciting new world of transportation for all and ushered in an era of changes that resonates to the present day, changes cataloged and described in a fascinating history of an engineering marvel.
Download or read book White Bicycles written by Joe Boyd and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd. More than any previous '60s music autobiography, Joe Boyd's White Bicycles offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake - the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well. As well as the '60s heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.
Download or read book Richards Ultimate Bicycle Book written by Richard Ballantine and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive reference for bicycle enthusiasts, by two best-selling authors on cycling. Over 700 photographs are annotated and accompanied by detailed text to provide up-to-date information on all types of bikes, accessories, maintenance and riding techniques. Includes a glossary and index. Created in the UK by Dorling Kindersley (1992).
Download or read book Da Vinci s Bicycle written by Guy Davenport and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time. They are all people who see the world differently from their contemporaries and therefore seem absurd."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Around the World on a Bicycle written by Fred A. Birchmore and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle tells of a young cyclist’s ever-changing and maturing worldview as he ventures through forty countries on the eve of World War II. It is an exuberant, youthful account, harking back to a time when the exploits of Richard Byrd, Amelia Earhart, and other adventurers stirred the popular imagination. In 1935 Fred A. Birchmore left the small American town of Athens, Georgia, to continue his college studies in Europe. In his spare time, Birchmore toured the continent on a one-speed bike he called Bucephalus (after the name of Alexander the Great’s horse). A born wanderer, Birchmore broadened his travels to include the British Isles and even the Mediterranean. After a lengthy, unplanned detour in Egypt, Birchmore put his studies on hold, pointed Bucephalus eastward, and just kept going. From desert valleys to frozen peaks, from palace promenades to muddy jungle trails, Birchmore saw it all on his eighteen-month, twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey. Some of the people he encountered had never seen a bike—or, for that matter, an Anglo-European. As a good travel experience should, Birchmore’s trip changed his outlook on strangers. Always daring, outgoing, and energetic, he now saw an innate goodness in people. In between bone-breaking spills, wild animal attacks, and privation of all kinds, Birchmore learned that he had little to fear from human encounters. That he traveled through a world on the brink of global war makes this lesson even more remarkable—and timeless.
Download or read book How to Handle a Bully written by Nancy Wilcox Richards and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rilla is not about to let some playground bullies stop her fun! Ms MacArthur's class is pumped about the fitness challenge at the park -- it's where kids from local schools compete in a series of events such as chin-ups, a tire run, a bicycle obstacle course and monkey-bar swinging. The winner will get a brand-new bike! But when Rilla and her classmates, Lauren and Nicholas, go to the park to practise, a threatening bully and his sidekicks stop them. Will they ever get to use the playground -- or hope to win any of the fitness challenge events? Though bullying is a serious topic many kids face, Nancy Wilcox Richards's tone is funny, light and positive, and in the end, the Bayfield kids succeed in pulling together to curb the bully's behaviour.
Download or read book Philip Larkin Letters to Monica written by Philip Larkin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet's death in 1985. This remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after Monica Jones's death in 2001, and consists of nearly two thousand letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle - day by day, sometimes hour by hour - every aspect of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship.
Download or read book Bicycling Middle Tennessee written by Ann Richards and published by . This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bicycling Middle Tennessee is the product of two years of cycling the vast network of lightly traveled roads which meander among valleys, ridges, forests, and farmlands. With this guide of 40+ rides ranging from 2 to 100 miles, leisurely riders and long distance cyclists will discover the best rural roads plus the hot spots for mountain biking. Combine these excursions to create 100+ mile trips and overnight tours through a network of excellent cycling roads. Book jacket.
Download or read book Bicycle Design written by Tony Hadland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's two-hundred-year evolution. The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution, from the earliest velocipedes (invented to fill the need for horseless transport during a shortage of oats) to modern racing bikes, mountain bikes, and recumbents. It traces the bicycle's development in terms of materials, ergonomics, and vehicle physics, as carried out by inventors, entrepreneurs, and manufacturers. Written by two leading bicycle historians and generously illustrated with historic drawings, designs, and photographs, Bicycle Design describes the key stages in the evolution of the bicycle, beginning with the counterintuitive idea of balancing on two wheels in line, through the development of tension-spoked wheels, indirect drives (employing levers, pulleys, chains, and chainwheels), and pneumatic tires. The authors examine the further development of the bicycle for such specific purposes as racing, portability, and all-terrain use; and they describe the evolution of bicycle components including seats, transmission, brakes, lights (at first candle-based), and carriers (racks, panniers, saddlebags, child seats, and sidecars). They consider not only commercially successful designs but also commercial failures that pointed the way to future technological developments. And they debunk some myths about bicycles—for example, the mistaken but often-cited idea that Leonardo sketched a chain-drive bike in his notebooks. Despite the bicycle's long history and mass appeal, its technological history has been neglected. This volume, with its engaging and wide-ranging coverage, fills that gap. It will be the starting point for all future histories of the bicycle.
Download or read book Cyclogeography Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier written by Jon Day and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyclogeography is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier. Traveling the unmapped byways, shortcuts, and urban edgelands, couriers are the declining, invisible workforce of the city. The parcels they deliver keep things running. For those who survive the crushing toughness of the job, the bicycle can become what holds them together.
Download or read book Bicycle Bash written by Alison Farrell and published by Chronicle Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Scarry meets Nana In the City in this bicycle themed seek-and-find adventure. Imagine visiting Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory—but for bikes! This is a seek-and-find/activity book rife with quirky illustrations that hits the sweet spot of every reader from the youngest to the oldest! The wheels keep turning in Cycle City, and it's finally time for the annual Bicycle Bash, where one and all can ride their bikes indoors. Etta's been specially invited by her Aunt Ellen to attend! But why does Aunt Ellen need a list of Etta's friends? Taking place in the Bicycle Museum, this celebration rolls out bicycles of all kinds—from low riders to tricycles to "bone shakers." The Museum even has lanes and tracks indoors so that everyone, Giraffe and Mouse alike, can ride their bikes anywhere. After a full day of riding through the museum halls, Etta pedals out to find a special surprise—her own birthday bash with her best friends! Follow Etta along her first bike tour with this delightfully detailed seek-and-find adventure. • BELOVED WORLDWIDE: The companion book, Cycle City, was published in seven foreign countries! Don't miss out on the favorite biking book of ciclistas worldwide! • FUN SEEK AND FIND: Alison Farrell's colorful, vibrant village will delight all kids who loved Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go and Busytown books and thrill parents hoping for the same idea plus a hip design aesthetic. • DETAIL-RICH: There's so much to see on each page! From mini conversations between town denizens to countless biking encounters outside the narrative, young readers will delight in rereading this book in order to see the many enticing, funny sights of this little town. • A TREAT FOR BICYCLE LOVERS: Big, small, fancy, historic—the many different kinds of bikes in this book are a feast for the eyes. Perfect for: • Fans of Richard Scarry • Fans of seek-and-find books • Families and friends who enjoy bike riding together • Parents looking for a lighthearted picture book their kids can spend hours with • Aunts looking for a picture book that portrays niece/nephew relationships • Parents, grandparents, and other family members looking for a lightly educational picture book • Fans of museums
Download or read book Two Wheels Good written by Jody Rosen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world “Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike—and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, journalist and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity’s life and dream life—and a flash point in culture wars—for more than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen’s book sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle’s saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a “green machine,” an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle-rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world’s fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle’s past and peers into its future, challenging myths and clichés while uncovering cycling’s connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel—a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.
