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.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Bicycles"

Free Country: A Penniless Adventure the Length of Britain

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)

How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers: A Simple but Brilliant Plan in 24 Easy Steps

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

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Lists

The Death of Marco Pantani by Matt Rendell

Best Cycling Books

317 books — 243 voters

Assassination of the Corvair by Andrew J. White

An Airplane in Every Garage by Daniel R. Zuck

The Aeropleustic Art, or Navigation in the Air by the Use of ... by George Pocock

Disposable Transportation

100 books — 1 voter

Hot Dude On A Motorbike

41 books — 36 voters

The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

Bikes on the Cover

464 books — 89 voters

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Being "Green"

390 books — 243 voters

Vehicleist Cycles Books Vault

105 books — 5 voters

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“ When I graduated from college, I sought out the cheapest rooms or apartments I could find. One of these put me next to a freeway interchange in Oakland California. The experience of living there, biking everywhere and reading the book The Power Broker by Robert Caro, changed my life and made me appreciate all the issues associated with transportation. I saw exactly how and why the freeway interchange gutted my neighborhood and how the main obstacle and danger to bicycling in urban areas was cars ...more ”
― Andy Singer

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“ Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only one thing certain about them, computer or bicycle. They go wrong. ...more ”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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