Reading About Riding

If your not braving the winter to ride outside, you have to settle for riding inside or maybe just reading about riding. Of course sometime you can manage both riding inside and reading at the same time. Here are some books I have heard mentioned, and in a few cases have even read, that you might be interested in.

And if you want one for Christmas you can accidentally forward a link to this list. After all you have been nice this year haven’t you? Think about all the drivers you didn’t yell at.

The Bikes

• Bicycle Technology – Rob Van Der Plas and Stuart Baird – An American take on bicycle technology
• Bicycle Design – Mike Burrows – A British take on bicycle technology
• The Bicycle Wheel – Jobst Brandt – All about wheels
• Cyclepedia – Michael Embacher and Paul Smith

• Tomorrow, We Ride – Jean Bobet – Experiences from racing in the 50s
• Slaying the Badger – Richard Moore – Story of Greg Lemond and Bernard Hinault in the 1986 Tour de France
• Pedalare! Pedalare! – John Foot – a history of Italian Cycling
• The Little Black Bottle – Gerry Moore – Doping in the 19th century
• The Death of Marco Pantani – Matt Rendell - one of the most tragic events in recent sports history
• Racing Through the Dark - David Millar – A story of redemption from an admitted doper

Children’s Book

• The Boy Who Biked the World – Alistair Humphreys

Bike Culture (for lack of a better word)

• On Bicycles – Amy Walker – a collection of essays edited by a co-founder of Momentum Magazine
• Bike Snob – Eben Weiss – humorous observations sure to poke fun at some of your beliefs
• Tucson Spokes – Stefan Walz and Chris Mooney – beautiful photos and interesting stories
• It’s All About the Bike - Rob Penn