About this title: The ultimate celebration of the bicycle from childhood nostalgia to high-tech mountain biking beautifully illustrated with 250 full-color photos.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale Books
Date Published: 2003-11-15
ISBN-13:9781579546694ISBN:1579546692
Description: Good. Full number line, tight, bright, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, cocked, corners bumped, an ex-library book with usual library markings and a mylar cover with the top layer removed leaving the underlayment beneath the dust jacket, ships in a box, delivery confirmation on all U.S. orders. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale, n.p.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781579546694ISBN:1579546692
Description: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1579546692. Foreword by Lance Armstrong. Color and black and white photographs throughout. First printing. Gift inscription on front paste-down, else fine in a fine dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale, n.p. :
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781579546694ISBN:1579546692
Description: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1579546692. Foreword by Lance Armstrong. Color and black and white photographs throughout. Second printing. About fine in a fine dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale Pr
Date Published: 2003-11-01
ISBN-13:9781579546694ISBN:1579546692
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781579546694. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781579546694ISBN:1579546692
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Description: New. 1579546692. AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. --clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text.; 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale Books
Date Published: 2003-11-15
ISBN-13:9781579546694ISBN:1579546692
Description: Very Good. ***WITHDRAWN LIBRARY COPY** * with customary markings. No markings in text; Being sold on consignment for the library. Choose your shipping option based on the time you are able to wait for delivery. read more
Description: Good. 1579546692 Ex-library with DJ in Mylar. No marking, other than library markings, in found text. Binding solid. Lightly used. Packaged carefully for shipping. Ships within 24 hours. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rodale Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781579546694ISBN:1579546692
Description: Hardcover, oblong 8vo., illustrated, 320 pages. A near new, unmarked, unsoiled copy in a like, unmarked and unclipped dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: RODALE PR
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781579546694ISBN:1579546692
Description: New. Why We Ride From the time we first wobble away from Mom or Dad on two wheels, we're hooked. The mobility, the freedom that the bicycle brings is our first taste of independence. For many, that feeling persists, and bicycling becomes a lifelong love. read more
Description: Dust Jacket Included. FIRST EDT. HARDCOVER IN VERY GOOD CONDT. AS IS THE DUCTJACKET. THE EDITORS OF BICYCLING MAGAZINE HAVE CREATED A UNIQUE HISTORY OF THE BIKE.320PP. BOOK#5058AUTOS. read more
"I enjoyed this book. A lot of great photos. This book was written by the editors of Bicycling Magazine and I think that influenced the layout of the book. Lots of inserts that appear in the body of the main text. This can work for a magazine, but in a book, especially a book that was designed to be short for its width, this format is annoying. You turn a page and come to an insert, but you don't realize its an insert because the page is so short. My main complaint of the book (same for the magazine) is that they spend too much time on the sport aspect of bicycling (racing, racing and some more racing). The "bicycle as utility" section was tiny and mainly showed pictures of Chinese peasants. One example had a caption that, ironically, still managed to reference the Tour de France. When bicycle messengers were mentioned, it was in the context of a bicycle messenger competition! I wanted to see and read about regular people using their bikes for utility, not just how there have been units of the police or the military on bicycles. The book is called the "Noblest Invention." That is apt, because this invention, which, a 120 years on, we now take for granted, was the sought after "clockwork horse." This allowed people who could not afford to keep an animal for transportation or as beasts of burden to still travel and move goods, cheaply and effectively. The activity of riding a bicycle helped break social barriers for women. Bicycle designers and mechanics were the ones that developed/invented autos and airplanes. The bicycle is not the "noblest invention" because we are able to ride it in a race."
"Here it is. Some more info on the recent history of the bicycle; the stuff alluded to in The Bicycle: A History. This book, however, is less a history than a paen to the bicycle. It includes historical information and notes on famous figures in the competitive cycling world, but much of the content is made up of photographs and quotes about bicycles and some prose shading towards the purple. It's a nice read."
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