Author: Jeff Mapes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"From traffic-dodging-bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bikes, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. Jeff Mapes traces the growth of bicycle advocacy and explores the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling. He rides with bicycle advocates who are taming the streets of New York City, joins the street circus that is Critical Mass in San Francisco, and gets inspired by the everyday folk pedaling in Amsterdam, the nirvana of American bike activists. Chapters focused on big cities, college towns, and America's most successful bike city, Portland, show how cyclists, with the encouragement of local officials, are claiming a share of the valuable streetscape."--BOOK JACKET.
Pedaling Revolution
Author: Jeff Mapes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"From traffic-dodging-bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bikes, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. Jeff Mapes traces the growth of bicycle advocacy and explores the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling. He rides with bicycle advocates who are taming the streets of New York City, joins the street circus that is Critical Mass in San Francisco, and gets inspired by the everyday folk pedaling in Amsterdam, the nirvana of American bike activists. Chapters focused on big cities, college towns, and America's most successful bike city, Portland, show how cyclists, with the encouragement of local officials, are claiming a share of the valuable streetscape."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"From traffic-dodging-bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bikes, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. Jeff Mapes traces the growth of bicycle advocacy and explores the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling. He rides with bicycle advocates who are taming the streets of New York City, joins the street circus that is Critical Mass in San Francisco, and gets inspired by the everyday folk pedaling in Amsterdam, the nirvana of American bike activists. Chapters focused on big cities, college towns, and America's most successful bike city, Portland, show how cyclists, with the encouragement of local officials, are claiming a share of the valuable streetscape."--BOOK JACKET.
The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling
Author: Joseph Banowetz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253066751
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
" . . . a most precious book which every serious pianist and teacher must own." —Journal of the American Liszt Society Joseph Banowetz and four distinguished contributors provide practical suggestions and musicological insights on the pedaling of keyboard works from the 18th to the 20th century.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253066751
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
" . . . a most precious book which every serious pianist and teacher must own." —Journal of the American Liszt Society Joseph Banowetz and four distinguished contributors provide practical suggestions and musicological insights on the pedaling of keyboard works from the 18th to the 20th century.
Pedaling the Ends of the Earth
Author: David Ewing Duncan
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The story of the incredible odyssey made by David Duncan and 2 other men by bicycle through countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The story of the incredible odyssey made by David Duncan and 2 other men by bicycle through countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Keep Pedaling, Zen Farmer
Author: Judd Biasiotto
Publisher: Brown Books
ISBN: 9780975390757
Category : Investments
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher: Brown Books
ISBN: 9780975390757
Category : Investments
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Eat, Sleep, Ride
Author: Paul Howard
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 1553658183
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
For Paul Howard, who has ridden the entire Tour de France route during the race itself—setting off at 4 am each day to avoid being caught by the pros—riding a small mountain-bike race should hold no fear. Still, this isn’t just any mountain-bike race. This is the Tour Divide. Running from Banff in Canada to the Mexican border, the Tour Divide is more than 2,700 miles—500 miles longer than the Tour de France. Its route along the Continental Divide goes through the heart of the Rocky Mountains and involves more than 200,000 feet of ascent—the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest seven times. The other problem is that Howard has never owned a mountain bike—and how will training on the South Downs in southern England prepare him for sleeping rough in the Rockies? Entertaining and engaging, Eat, Sleep, Ride will appeal to avid and aspiring cyclers, as well as fans of adventure/travel narrative with a humorous twist.
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 1553658183
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
For Paul Howard, who has ridden the entire Tour de France route during the race itself—setting off at 4 am each day to avoid being caught by the pros—riding a small mountain-bike race should hold no fear. Still, this isn’t just any mountain-bike race. This is the Tour Divide. Running from Banff in Canada to the Mexican border, the Tour Divide is more than 2,700 miles—500 miles longer than the Tour de France. Its route along the Continental Divide goes through the heart of the Rocky Mountains and involves more than 200,000 feet of ascent—the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest seven times. The other problem is that Howard has never owned a mountain bike—and how will training on the South Downs in southern England prepare him for sleeping rough in the Rockies? Entertaining and engaging, Eat, Sleep, Ride will appeal to avid and aspiring cyclers, as well as fans of adventure/travel narrative with a humorous twist.
Get Up and Ride
Author: Jim Shea
Publisher: Jim Shea
ISBN: 173626060X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In the summer of 2010, brothers-in-law Marty and Jim embark on a cycling trip along the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal, a 335-mile trek from their home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Jim's boyhood home in Washington, DC. Chance encounters with colorful local characters and other surprising escapades during five days on the trail make for nonstop laughs. As they travel through forests and along winding rivers, they experience the breathtaking scenery of western Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, exploring early American history while learning more about each other as well as themselves. This true story is for adventurers and cyclists as well as couch potatoes looking for a lighthearted take on friendship and some hilarious fun.
Publisher: Jim Shea
ISBN: 173626060X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In the summer of 2010, brothers-in-law Marty and Jim embark on a cycling trip along the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal, a 335-mile trek from their home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Jim's boyhood home in Washington, DC. Chance encounters with colorful local characters and other surprising escapades during five days on the trail make for nonstop laughs. As they travel through forests and along winding rivers, they experience the breathtaking scenery of western Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, exploring early American history while learning more about each other as well as themselves. This true story is for adventurers and cyclists as well as couch potatoes looking for a lighthearted take on friendship and some hilarious fun.
Joyride
Author: Mia Birk
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9781594857607
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published: Portland: Cadence Press, 2010.
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9781594857607
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published: Portland: Cadence Press, 2010.
Bicycling Magazine's Complete Book of Road Cycling Skills
Author: Ed Pavelka
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9780875964867
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Provides advice on equipment and skills, including tips on how to prevent injury and convert a mountain bike into a road bike
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9780875964867
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Provides advice on equipment and skills, including tips on how to prevent injury and convert a mountain bike into a road bike
Journey (If Where You're Going Isn't Home)
Author: Max Zimmer
Publisher: Max Zimmer
ISBN: 0985448121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
"The story of a boy growing up Mormon in America with a dream to play jazz trumpet. ... It begins in 1956. Young Shake Tauffler hears a line of music on the radio of a cattle truck that changes his life forever. The music is jazz. The instrument is a trumpet. His family is moving one last time - from a southern Utah ranch to a town outside Salt Lake - on his father's quest to bring his family from Switzerland to the heartland of the Mormon church. In two months, when Shake turns twelve, he'll join his buddies on a shared journey through the ranks of his father's take-no-prisoners religion. At the same time, armed with a used trumpet and his bike, he'll start another journey, on his own, to a place whose high priests aren't his father's friends but the Negro greats of jazz, men he's been taught to believe are cursed but from whose music he learns everything he dreams of being."--Back cover.
Publisher: Max Zimmer
ISBN: 0985448121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
"The story of a boy growing up Mormon in America with a dream to play jazz trumpet. ... It begins in 1956. Young Shake Tauffler hears a line of music on the radio of a cattle truck that changes his life forever. The music is jazz. The instrument is a trumpet. His family is moving one last time - from a southern Utah ranch to a town outside Salt Lake - on his father's quest to bring his family from Switzerland to the heartland of the Mormon church. In two months, when Shake turns twelve, he'll join his buddies on a shared journey through the ranks of his father's take-no-prisoners religion. At the same time, armed with a used trumpet and his bike, he'll start another journey, on his own, to a place whose high priests aren't his father's friends but the Negro greats of jazz, men he's been taught to believe are cursed but from whose music he learns everything he dreams of being."--Back cover.
Justin Doyle's "I Am Nobody, I Am Somebody"
Author: Justin Doyle
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434937739
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434937739
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description