On Bicycles

Author : Evan Friss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544243
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Bicycles written by Evan Friss and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York’s streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city’s first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle’s place in city life have been so persistent not just because of its many uses—recreation, sport, transportation, business—but because of changing conceptions of who cyclists are. In On Bicycles, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared. It has been central, as when horse-drawn carriages shared the road with bicycle lanes in the 1890s; peripheral, when Robert Moses’s car-centric vision made room for bicycles only as recreation; and aggressively marginalized, when Ed Koch’s battle against bike messengers culminated in the short-lived 1987 Midtown Bike Ban. On Bicycles illuminates how the city as we know it today—veined with over a thousand miles of bicycle lanes—reflects a fitful journey powered, and opposed, by New York City’s people and its politics.

Author : Amy Walker
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608680231
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Bicycles written by Amy Walker and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the quaint province of European cities such as Amsterdam, daily cycling is currently exploding in North American cities. People ride folding bikes to the train, slip through traf?c on tricked-out ?xed-gears, and carry children and groceries on their utility bikes. Commuters are giving up their cars Monday through Friday, bike lanes and bike parking are sprouting up all over, and Talking Head David Byrne has designed arty bike racks for various New York City neighborhoods. It’s healthy for riders and clean for the environment, but is it fun? Amy Walker, who has been at the forefront of the urban cycling trend, knows that the answer is yes. She presents stories by a diverse group of cycling enthusiasts and activists that, accompanied by the illustrations of bike culture artist Matt Fleming, show readers why. They say you never forget how to ride a bike; this collection helps us remember why we ride.

Author : Chris Boardman
Publisher : Pier 9
ISBN 13 : 9781760295806
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1001 Bikes to Dream of Riding Before You Die written by Chris Boardman and published by Pier 9. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1001 Bikes to Dream of Riding Before You Diecelebrates the designs and individual stories behind the world's most influential, ground-breaking and high-profile bicycles.

Author : Jannine Fitzgerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996251402
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book B Is for Bicycles written by Jannine Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe Boyd
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652166
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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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 255 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.

Author : Teresa Robeson
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807507652
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Bicycles in Beijing written by Teresa Robeson and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cycle through the sights of Beijing with Lunzi as she searches for her best friend. One, two; yi, er. Side by side, two bicycles, Lunzi and Huangche, come out of the factory. Side by side, they watch the city of Beijing from their shop window. Then a young girl comes in and buys Huangche, rolling him away from Lunzi! With the help of a delivery boy, Lunzi begins an epic race to find her friend that introduces readers to all the sights and sounds of Beijing.

Author : Elly Blue
Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1648411312
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bicycles & Broomsticks written by Elly Blue and published by Microcosm Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coven races—literally—to fight off the magic smog that threatens their city. A janitor at the last rocket launch site on a dying planet sends the rocket up with a special spell of comfort. Instead of casting the resiliency spell she asked for, a girl's grandmother teaches her to ride a bike. A midwife's bicycle is stolen, resulting in a fitting comeuppance. An urban witch falls for a bicycle mechanic and learns to reconcile her double life. Enjoy these and more science fiction and fantasy stories in the pages of the supernatural 9th volume of the popular Bikes in Space series. Featuring work by Hester Dade, M. Lopes da Silva, Monique Cuillerier, A. P. Howell, Ether Nepenthes, M. A. Blanchard, Kathleen Jowitt, G. J. Craddock, Gretchin Lair, and Emily Uduwana.

Author : Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780241226117
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bicycle Book written by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns with a new identity, a long-term girlfriend and a young daughter, who know nothing of what happened before. Yet when he runs into Jessica, neither of them can ignore the emotional ties that bind them together. With so many secrets to keep hidden, how long can Jessica and Matthew avoid the dark mistakes of their past imploding in the present?

Author : C. Calvin Jones
Publisher : Park Tool
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair written by C. Calvin Jones and published by Park Tool. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BBB-4 Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair by Calvin Jones is packed with easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures, color photos and repair tips for keeping almost any road or off-road bike running smoothly and trouble-free. Whether it's repairing a flat tire, adjusting brakes and shifting systems, truing wheels, or maintaining hub, headset and bottom bracket bearing systems, the BBB-4 has you covered. Thoroughly researched and revised, the 4th edition of the Big Blue Book contains updated photos, torque specifications and troubleshooting tables, along with new content on wheel building, electronic shifting, 12-speed and 1X drivetrains, tubeless tires, disc brakes, headset and bottom bracket standards, and more. Truly an indispensable tool and reference source for both the novice and advanced bicycle mechanic.

Author : Richard Ballentine
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781585671120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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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.