Go By Bike (and Book!)

Celebrate Winter Go By Bike Week (Feb 5 - 11th) with some cycling themed reads to fix your ride and inspire your next.

Updated February 3, 2024
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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...
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...
Sprinting through no man's land : endurance, tragedy, and rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
Dobkin, Adin
Paper Book
The inspiring, heart-pumping true story of soldiers turned cyclists and the historic 1919 Tour de France that helped to restore a war-torn country and its people. On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked...
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...
100 bike rides of a lifetime : the world's ultimate cycling experiences
Smith, Roff Martin
Paper Book
This inspiring illustrated guide from National Geographic reveals the ultimate bucket list destinations for cyclists, from the vineyards of New Zealand to the peaks of Patagonia. Get your pedals turning with this ultimate guide to the 100 greatest bike routes around the world....
Lands of lost borders :
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 of her...

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