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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cycling

by Vic Armijo

Learn how to make the wheels turn in this informative guide that provides solid instruction on choosing the best bicycle and the differences between road, touring, racing, and cross bikes.

The Tour de France, 1903-2003: A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values

by Hugh Dauncey & Geoff Hare

This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition. This study provides interdisciplinary...

The Cyclist's Training Bible

by Friel Joe

The Cyclist's Training Bible is the bestselling and most complete guide to training for cycling, bike rides, and bike racing.

Ride: From ultra-cycling rookie to racing across America

by Josh Kench

How a pretty unfit, very ordinary bloke became an ultra-endurance cyclist and undertook one of the great feats of human endurance.

The Happiness of Pursuit: A Father's Courage, a Son's Love and Life's Steepest Climb

by Davis Phinney & Austin Murphy

In this humorous and graceful memoir of fathers and sons and bikes, U.S. cycling legend Davis Phinney takes us along for the ride as he faces his steepest climb yet, the battle with early onset Parkinson's disease....

The Pocket Mountain Bike Trail Guide: Your slope saviour

by Clive Forth

From the author of The Mountain Bike Skills Manual, this is a take-it-with-you trail guide that covers everything you need to know when you're out on your bike.

The emphasis is firmly on the practical, including...

Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 2nd Ed.

by Hunter Allen & Andy , PhD Coggan

In only a few short years, power meters have become an essential training tool for amateur and pro cyclists and triathletes. The first edition of Training and Racing with a Power Meter was largely responsible...

Cycling for Dummies

by Gavin Wright & Charlie Pickering

Discover the joys and benefitsof riding a bike

Whether you're looking to join the Lycra brigade, tear down mountain bike trails or simply teach yourself — or your child — how to ride, this practical guide...

A Dog in a Hat: An American Bike Racer's Story of Mud, Drugs, Blood, Betrayal, and Beauty in Belgium

by Joe Parkin

A Dog in a Hat is the remarkable story of Joe Parkin. In 1987, Parkin left the comforts of home to become a bike racer in Belgium, the hardest place in the world to be a bike racer. As one of the first American...

It's All About the Bike

by Robert Penn

Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he rides to get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and sunshine,...

The Urban Biking Handbook: The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living

by Charles Haine

Ever wanted to take a bicycle vacation? Go on a bike date? Convert your beater into a fixie? Or are you just curious about the anthropology of urban cycling culture? The Urban Biking Handbook teaches you the...