Go By Bike (and Book!)

Celebrate Spring Go By Bike Week (May 31st - June 6th) with some cycling themed reads to fix your ride and inspire your next.

Updated May 28, 2025
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Along a long road
Viva, Frank.
Paper Book
Follow that road! Speed off on an eventful bicycle ride along the bold yellow road that cuts through town, by the sea, and through the country. Ride up and around, along and through, out and down. Frank's striking graphic style is executed in just five joyous...
Two wheels good : the history and mystery of the bicycle
Rosen, Jody
Paper Book
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world "Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) ONE...
Wheels of change : how women rode the bicycle to freedom (with a few flat tires along the way)
Macy, Sue.
Paper Book
Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how...
You and a bike and a road
Davis, Eleanor
Paper Book
Eleanor Davis's bike tour from Tucson, Arizona to Athens, Georgia is a quest of epic proportions -- not just geographically, which it surely is, but inwardly as well. While facing off formidable headwinds, drivers with reckless abandon, and screaming knee pain, the author confronts an even greater...
Bike snob abroad strange customs, incredible feits, and the quest for cycling paradise
Weiss, Eben.
Ebook
The doyen of bike etiquette leaves NYC behind to experience a strange new world of cycling--through London, Amsterdam, and beyond.What does it really mean to be a bike-friendly country? BikeSnobNYC decided to find out for himself. With his toddler son in tow, he heads to London,...
Copenhagenize : the definitive guide to global bicycle urbanism
Colville-Andersen
Paper Book
The bicycle enjoyed a starring role in urban history over a century ago, but now it is back, stronger than ever. It is the single most important tool for improving our cities. Designing around it is the most efficient way to make our cities life-sized--to scale cities for humans. It is...

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