Authors:Ed Pavelka, The Editors of Bicycling Magazine,
Publisher: Rodale Press, Inc.
Keywords: faster, riding, stronger, longer, safer, guide, skills, complete, magazine, book, road, cycling, bicycling
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 1998-01-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0875964869
ISBN-13: 9780875964867
Take your road cycling to the next level with the newest techniques, equipment, and skills from the leading magazine in the sport. Check out how to:* Ensure your bike is in tip-top shape in 8 easy steps* Boost your efficiency with smooth pedaling and proper form* Brake without wasting speed or wiping out* Ride safely in wet, cold, and hot weather* Convert your mountain bike for the road* Master the skills of riding in traffic* Get long-distance secrets from the Race Across America record-holder* Train indoors with these 5 workouts* Prevent saddle sores, numbness, and knee pain* Motivate yourse
Author: Gale Bernhardt
Publisher: VeloPress
Keywords: women, bicycling
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1934030287
ISBN-13: 9781934030288
From bone structure to physiology to aging patterns, women are different from men, yet most serious cycling books fail to take into account the particular concerns of female athletes. In Bicycling for Women, cycling authority Gale Bernhardt discusses all things female for beginning and intermediate cyclists.Comprehensive and scientific, Bernhardt’s presentation is up-to-date, smart, and easily understood. She addresses basic questions on bike fit, equipment, and training before moving on to the additional issues specific to women, such as cycling and pregnancy, injury prevention for wome
Author: Valerie Bodden
Publisher: Creative Education
Keywords: sports, active, bicycling
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2007-07
List price: $24.25
ISBN-10: 1583414673
ISBN-13: 9781583414675
Author: Ben Hewitt
Publisher: Rodale Books
Keywords: handbook, cyclist, new, magazine, bicycling
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-11-29
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 1594863008
ISBN-13: 9781594863004
Proven wisdom and techniques to help new cyclists get on the road to better fitness and safe, skilled riding.Now completely revised and updated with the latest advances in the sport, this comprehensive handbook will help any new cyclist ride with confidence and avoid common pitfalls. Learn how to choose the right bike, ride safely in traffic, treat and prevent injuries, train for a century, and perform basic maintenance. Packed with quick tips from the pros at Bicycling magazine, this volume provides everything the new cyclist needs to achieve optimum cycling performance.
Authors:Vicky Spring, Tom Kirkendall,
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Keywords: coast, pacific, bicycling
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0898869544
ISBN-13: 9780898869545
More than a meticulously detailed route, this is an adventure highlighting what to see and explore along the way. *Bike the coast in one trip or four separate adventures *Road directions, points of interest, and available restrooms and provisions all built into daily mileage logs *Elevation profiles and new Table of Essentials overview for each day’s ride *More than 50,000 copies sold in previous editions From Vancouver, B.C. to the Mexican border, Tom Kirkendall and Vicky Spring guide you turn by turn along the length of Pacific Coast Bicycle Route-all 1816.5 miles. These forty-two sugg
Author: Robert Graef
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: memoir, war, world, amersfoort, bicycling
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-04-25
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0595346219
ISBN-13: 9780595346219
A timely memoir of life under Nazi occupation vividly reminds us that most of war’s damage is collateral, most of the casualties are non-combatants, and most of their wounds are psychological. A boy and his family learn to survive after German forces destroy and occupy Rotterdam. An uncle reveals traitorous Nazi ties that lead to a commission as a Waffen SS officer and his sister takes up with a German soldier and defects to Germany. Meanwhile, teen-aged Jan Makkreel lives by his wits as he is drawn into illegal transport of food, assisting Jews, and smuggling resistance information an
Author: David Gordon Wilson
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: science, bicycling
Number of Pages: 485
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0262731541
ISBN-13: 9780262731546
