Bicycles

A bicycle is a human-powered, pedal-driven vehicle, first developed in the 19th century and remaining a popular form of transportation and sport today.

Free Country: A Penniless Adventure the Length of Britain
My Bike
Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
Eat, Sleep, Ride: How I Braved Bears, Badlands, and Big Breakfasts in My Quest to Cycle the Tour Divide
The Red Bicycle: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Bicycle
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
Ben Rides On
How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers: A Simple but Brilliant Plan in 24 Easy Steps
The Best Bike Ride Ever
Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle
Off We Go!: A Bear and Mole Story
In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Trancendence
Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike
Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle
Duck on a Bike
The Girl and the Bicycle
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
Bicycle Diaries
Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling
It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance
Crunch
Along a Long Road
Sunraycer by Bill TuckeyAssassination of the Corvair by Andrew J. WhiteAn Airplane in Every Garage by Daniel R. ZuckJail on Wheels by Jacqui ShineThe Aeropleustic Art, or Navigation in the Air by the Use of ... by George Pocock
Disposable Transportation
100 books — 1 voter
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonGrandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben MontgomeryWild by Cheryl StrayedWalking the Nile by Levison WoodThe Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck
Travel without a Motor
162 books — 38 voters

Signs of Life by Stephen FabesCatfish and Mandala by Andrew X. PhamFull Tilt by Dervla MurphyMiles from Nowhere by Barbara SavageMoods of Future Joys by Alastair Humphreys
Bike Travel
76 books — 62 voters

Reaper's Property by Joanna WyldeMotorcycle Man by Kristen AshleyDuke by Candace BlevinsBrain by Candace BlevinsUndeniable by Madeline Sheehan
Hot Dude On A Motorbike
41 books — 36 voters
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigMotorcycle Man by Kristen AshleyThe Diary of Bink Cummings by Bink CummingsJupiter's Travels by Ted SimonReaper's Property by Joanna Wylde
Best Motorcycle Books
135 books — 186 voters


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William Faulkner
People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles.
William Faulkner, The Reivers

Robert Penn
And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability. ...more
Robert Penn, It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

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