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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Bicycle repair manual
Sidwells, Chris
Paper Book
From regular maintenance for optimum performance to emergency repairs, this illustrated guide is the perfect handbook for beginners and experienced cyclists alike. The Bike Repair Manual is packed with insightful information on the anatomy and functioning of all...
The history of cycling in fifty bikes
Ambrose, Tom.
Paper Book
The invention of the bicycle changed history by democratizing travel for the first time. The common man--and importantly the common woman--could now afford to travel at reasonable speed without the need of a horse. Instead of walking just 10 miles a day on foot, a healthy individual could now ride...
Practical cycling : equip, maintain and repair your bicycle
Belando, Laurent
Paper Book
Here is a book that will answer (almost) all of a beginning and experienced bicyclist's questions about how to get the most out of the activity, while protecting yourself and saving money where possible. How? First there is professional advice on helmets and techniques for safe...
You & a bike & 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...
Lands of lost borders : out of bounds on the Silk Road
Harris, Kate
Paper Book
"Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic."--Pico Iyer A brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir...

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