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BMX Freestyle
Discusses bicycle motocross equipment and safety measures and offers guidance on performing a variety of bicycle motocross stunts.
Schwinn
From its inception in 1895 as Arnold, Schwinn & Company, Schwinn bicycles have been the best-built and most-desired bikes produced in America. This book gives you a comprehensive overview of these great bikes. It includes chapters on the early history, balloon-tire bikes, middle-weights, lightweights, Stingrays and Krates, and the modern era of mountain bikes, road bikes, BMX, and the return of the Black Phantom.
Standard Catalog of Schwinn Bicycles 1895-2004
350 full-color photos of Schwinn bicycles through the years - Narrative discusses available options and accessories - Covers the extremely popular new Sting Ray
The London Cycle Guide
Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to have fun on a bicycle in London. The 25 routes described in this guide cover more than 250 miles enjoyable cycling. Designed to suit all ages and capabilities, much of the rides are traffic-free -- even in the city's center -- taking cyclists along waterways and parks to sites of historic and cultural interest. All routes are clearly defined with step-by-step notes and color maps. Also included are do's and don'ts for cycling in London, and sections on history, public transport, shops, and amenities.
The Original Mountain Bike Book
Rob van der Plas & Charles Kelly Softcover 176 pages Out of Print. New old stock.
The Ride to Modernity
This is the story of Canada's encounter with the bicycle in the late nineteenth century, set in the context of the cultural movement known as 'modernity.' Glen Norcliffe covers the bicycle's history from about 1869, when the first bicycle appeared in Canada, until about 1900, a date that marks the end of the era when bicycles were a recognized symbol of modernity and social status; cycling continued into the Edwardian period and beyond, of course, especially in Europe, but by then it had lost its symbolic status and social cachet in Canada.
Norcliffe's aim is to examine how the bicycle fits into the larger picture of change and progress in a period of dramatic economic, social, and technological flux. He argues that the bicycle led to a host of innovations affecting the development of technology, modern manufacturing, better roads, automobiles, and even airplanes. He describes, for example, how the bicycle, promoted through eye-catching advertisements, was one of the first products for which the sale of accessories was as important as sales of the main item - thus anticipating twentieth-century patterns of marketing.
Lively and well illustrated, The Ride to Modernity provides a particularly Canadian history of one of the first big-ticket, mass-produced consumer luxuries.