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Bike Snob

Author : BikeSnobNYC
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452100977
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Bike Snob written by BikeSnobNYC and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Equal parts critical manifesto and tender mini-memoir about a boy and his bikes” from Eben Weiss, blogger and author of The Enlightened Cyclist (GQ). Cycling is exploding in a good way. Urbanites everywhere, from ironic hipsters to earth-conscious commuters, are taking to the bike like aquatic mammals to water. BikeSnobNYC—cycling’s most prolific, well-known, hilarious, and anonymous blogger—brings a fresh and humorous perspective to the most important vehicle to hit personal transportation since the horse. Bike Snob treats readers to a laugh-out-loud rant and rave about the world of bikes and their riders and offers a unique look at the ins and outs of cycling, from its history and hallmarks to its wide range of bizarre practitioners. Throughout, the author lampoons the missteps, pretensions, and absurdities of bike culture while maintaining a contagious enthusiasm for cycling itself. Bike Snob is an essential volume for anyone who knows, is, or wants to become a cyclist. “This is a social manual that should be bundled with every bike shipped in America.” —Christian Lander, author of Stuff White People Like “I like to think I know a thing or two (or three) about being ruthless and relentless—either trying to win the Tour or fighting cancer. The Snob knows it too. Keeping us dorks in line is tough work. I take pleasure in getting picked on by the Snob, slightly more pleasure in reading his writing, but take the most pleasure punishing his ass (my payback) on the bike either in Central Park or on 9W/River Road. Long live the Snob.” —Lance Armstrong

Bike Snob Abroad

Author : BikeSnobNYC
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452105251
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Bike Snob Abroad written by BikeSnobNYC and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by frustrations with cycling in America where pedestrians and cyclists are forced to share the road, explores the cycling cultures of European countries to find out what it means to be a bike-friendly nation.

The Enlightened Cyclist

Author : Bike Snob NYC
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452113475
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Enlightened Cyclist written by Bike Snob NYC and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Bike Snob helps bike commuters transcend common obstacles and handle cars, pedestrians, and other cyclists with grace. The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts every year. But as fresh-faced cyclists fill the roads, they also encounter their share of frustrations—careless drivers, wide-flung car doors, zoned-out pedestrians, and aggressive fellow cyclists, to name a few. In this follow-up to Bike Snob, BikeSnobNYC takes on the trials and triumphs of bike commuting with snark, humor, and enthusiasm. He asks the question: If we become better commuters, will that make us better people? From the deadly sins of biking to tactics for dealing with cars, pedestrians, and other cyclists, this primer on bike travel is a must-read for cyclists new and seasoned alike.

The Ultimate Bicycle Owner's Manual

Author : Eben Weiss
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316352675
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Bicycle Owner's Manual written by Eben Weiss and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know to purchase, maintain, and ride a bike for recreation, commuting, competition, travel, and beyond! From the bike world's most beloved and trusted advocate. Eben Weiss, aka Bike Snob NYC, is the voice of cyclists everywhere. Through his popular blog he has been informing, entertaining, and critiquing the bike-riding community since 2007. With his latest book, The Ultimate Bicycle Owner's Manual, Weiss makes his vast experience and practical advice available to bike "newbies" and veterans alike. Chapters cover Obtaining a Bike, Understanding Your Bike, Maintaining Your Bike, Operating Your Bike, Off-Road Riding, Coexisting with Drivers, Competitive Cycling, Bike Travel, Cycling with Kids, and What the Future Holds for Bikes in our Communities. Weiss's humorous, down-to-earth style takes all the mystery and intimidation out of cycling and will inspire even the most hesitant couch potato to get out and ride! Eben Weiss is the blogger behind Bike Snob NYC. He is the author of Bike Snob, Bike Snob Abroad, and The Enlightened Cyclist. He lives in New York City with his family.

It's All About the Bike

Author : Robert Penn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608195767
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book It's All About the Bike written by Robert Penn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he rides to get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to travel, to go shopping, to stay sane, and to skip bath time with his kids. He's no Sunday pedal pusher. So when the time came for a new bike, he decided to pull out all the stops. He would build his dream bike, the bike he would ride for the rest of his life; a customized machine that reflects the joy of cycling. It's All About the Bike follows Penn's journey, but this book is more than the story of his hunt for two-wheel perfection. En route, Penn brilliantly explores the culture, science, and history of the bicycle. From artisanal frame shops in the United Kingdom to California, where he finds the perfect wheels, via Portland, Milan, and points in between, his trek follows the serpentine path of our love affair with cycling. It explains why we ride. It's All About the Bike is, like Penn's dream bike, a tale greater than the sum of its parts. An enthusiastic and charming tour guide, Penn uses each component of the bike as a starting point for illuminating excursions into the rich history of cycling. Just like a long ride on a lovely day, It's All About the Bike is pure joy- enriching, exhilarating, and unforgettable.

Bike Tribes

Author : Mike Magnuson
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609617436
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Bike Tribes written by Mike Magnuson and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious and essential illustrated field guide that breaks down the tribes of the bicycling community: from the spandex-clad weekend warriors to the hipsters on street bikes who love to laugh at each other (and themselves) Anyone who rides a bike knows the bicycling world is made up of tribes. From tattooed messengers to pretty urban hipsters to grouchy shop owners, they may look like they live on different planets, but they are united by their abiding love of bikes—and often their total disdain of other members of this insular world. Bike Tribes is the Preppy Handbook of bicycling, replete with one-of-a-kind illustrations that taxonomize the special habits, clothing, preferences, and predilections of cyclists. Mike Magnuson, an avid rider, bicycling expert, and longtime contributor to Bicycling magazine, covers the basics of racing, etiquette, and apparel and gear, including running commentary on cycling culture, poking holes in practically every pretension in the cycling world. Bike Tribes is a fun romp through the various subcultures in the bike community—bound to appeal to newcomers and grizzled cyclists alike.

Two Wheels Good

Author : Jody Rosen
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804141517
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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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.

Just Ride

Author : Grant Petersen
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761155589
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Just Ride written by Grant Petersen and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions and debunks over eighty myths to highlight bicycling's inherently enjoyable nature, addressing everything from clothing and accessories to health, fitness, and safety.

Popular Mechanics Book of Bikes and Bicycling

Author : Dick Teresi
Publisher : Hearst Books
ISBN 13 : 9780910990561
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Popular Mechanics Book of Bikes and Bicycling written by Dick Teresi and published by Hearst Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bike for Life

Author : Roy M. Wallack
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 9781569244517
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Bike for Life written by Roy M. Wallack and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ride a century when you turn a century!.

Bike Snob Abroad

Author : Bike Snob NYC
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452124132
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Bike Snob Abroad written by Bike Snob NYC and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doyen of bike etiquette leaves NYC behind to experience a strange new world of cycling—through London, Amsterdam, and beyond. What does it really mean to be a bike-friendly country? BikeSnobNYC decided to find out for himself. With his toddler son in tow, he heads to London, Amsterdam, Gothenburg, and San Vito dei Normanni in search of the ultimate bike culture. With humorous anecdotes and his trademark wit and wisdom, BikeSnobNYC takes us on his most personal narrative journey yet, and ultimately shines a light on the growing pains that exist in any culture that asks smartphone-obsessed text-happy pedestrians, the two-wheeled, and the four-wheeled to share the road.

Bikes for Sale

Author : Carter Higgins
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452175950
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Bikes for Sale written by Carter Higgins and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice rides his bike to his shop every day. Lotta rides her bike to collect sticks every day. Both go about their separate routines, unaware of the friendship that awaits them just a few blocks away. But what happens when a branch and a lemon peel get in the way? This delightful falling-in-like story from acclaimed picture book creators Carter Higgins and Zachariah OHora celebrates the power of coincidence to lead us to the friends we're meant to meet all along.

No Crueler Tyrannies

Author : Dorothy Rabinowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743228404
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book No Crueler Tyrannies written by Dorothy Rabinowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In No Crueler Tyrannies, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dorothy Rabinowitz re-frames the facts, reconsiders the evidence, and demystifies the proceedings of some of America's most harrowing cases of failed justice. Recalling the hysteria that accompanied the child sex-abuse witch-hunts of the 1980s and 1990s, Rabinowitz's investigative study brings to life such alarming examples of prosecutorial terrors as the case against New Jersey nursery school worker Kelly Michaels, absurdly accused of 280 counts of sexual assault; the as-yet-unfinished story of Gerald Amirault's involvement in the Fells Acres scandal; Patrick Griffin, a respected physician whose life and reputation were destroyed by one false accusation of molestation; and Miami policeman Grant Snowden's sentencing of five consecutive life terms for a crime that, as proved in court eleven years later, he did not commit. By turns a shocking exposé, a much-needed postmortem, and a required-reading assignment for prosecutors and judges alike, No Crueler Tyrannies is ultimately an inspiring book about the courage of ordinary citizens who believe in the American judicial system enough to fight for due process.

Cycling, Wine, and Men

Author : Nancy Brook
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1600378277
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Cycling, Wine, and Men written by Nancy Brook and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging travelogue that's part "Under the Tuscan Sun" and part "Sex and the City," Brook reveals an introspective journey through post-divorce dating, single parenthood, and finding happiness and independence as an unattached woman in her prime.

Commando Dad: A Basic Training Manual for the First Three Years of Fatherhood

Author : Neil Sinclair
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452132208
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Commando Dad: A Basic Training Manual for the First Three Years of Fatherhood written by Neil Sinclair and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable training manual for new recruits to fatherhood—written by an ex-Commando and dad of three. Commando Dad provides clear and logical advice on all the practicalities of becoming a new father and offers simple, helpful instruction for all obstacles along the way. Neil Sinclair teach prospective fathers, in no-nonsense terms, how to survive the first twenty-four hours; how to Prepare and Plan to Prevent Poor Parental Performance; how to maintain morale in the ranks; how to feed, clothe, transport, and entertain your troops; how to transport the troops successfully on maneuvers; how to increase your “flash to bang” time and “square away” tasks along the way.

Bicycle Portraits

Author : Stan Engelbrecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620522526
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Bicycle Portraits written by Stan Engelbrecht and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cop in the Hood

Author : Peter Moskos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781400832262
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Cop in the Hood written by Peter Moskos and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift. Through Moskos's eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared for the realities of the street, success measured by number of arrests, and the ultimate failure of the war on drugs. In addition to telling an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer, he makes a passionate argument for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence--and let cops once again protect and serve. In a new afterword, Moskos describes the many benefits of foot patrol--or, as he calls it, "policing green."