Tag: book review
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Cycling Science by Max Glaskin
Cycling Science: How Rider and Machine Work Together by Max Glaskin is a new book from the University of Chicago Press that will be released in November. I don’t have a copy of the entire book, just a 10 page preview sampler from the publisher, but from what I can see it looks like it…
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Three bike books from Laurence King Publishing
I was only expecting a copy of The Custom Road Bike, by Guy Andrews, from the folks at Laurence King Publishing, but I received two other books as well. All three are interesting, so I want to quickly share my impressions of each of them. When I first browsed through The Custom Road Bike, it…
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Italian Racing Bicycles
When I started to get serious about road riding and racing in the mid 80s, I bought a Suntour equipped Trek 500 (just like the one on the cover of the ’85 catalog). It was a fine bike, especially considering the fact that it cost less than 300 bucks, but from the first time I…
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A couple of book reviews
In addition to playing in the surf, eating some great seafood, and riding bikes with my family, I had the chance to catch up on some reading while I was at the beach last week. The two books I took on the trip were It’s All About the Bike by Robert Penn and Joyride: Pedaling…
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Come and Gone by Joe Parkin
I was on vacation at the beach last week, so I didn’t get a chance to post any new content on the blog. I did get a chance to finish reading a good book while I was lounging in the sand though- Come and Gone: A True Story of Blue-Collar Bike Racing in America by…
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Bike Snob book illustrator Chris Koelle
I am a fan of Bike Snob NYC (aka Eben Weiss), so I was pretty excited to receive a copy of his new book from the publisher a few days ago. It is a nice little book… hardbound and about 5” x 7” inches in size with full color photos and 2 color line drawings…
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2009 in review
Wow, it is hard to believe that it is the last day of 2009…where did the year go? The year’s end is a good time to take a look at Google Analytics and see what has been happening with the blog this past year. Almost 750,000 people visited Bicycle Design in 2009 from 204 different…
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Smart Move: Bicycles from the Embacher Collection
It probably won’t surprise many of you to hear that I have a pretty extensive collection of bicycle books at home. Some of you may even remember when I mentioned a few of my favorites some time ago in a post about old bikes. Well, now I have a new book to add to that…
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Custom Bicycles: A Passionate Pursuit
As Cyclelicious mentioned in a post earlier this month, the 2009 North American Handmade Bike Show was the biggest one yet. That is great news, but it shouldn’t really come as a surprise. Notwithstanding current economic conditions, it seems like interest in custom bicycles is at a high point (in recent memory at least). There…