On Bicycles

Author : Amy Walker
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781608680238

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On Bicycles by Amy Walker Pdf

Once the quaint province of European cities such as Amsterdam, daily cycling is currently exploding in North American cities. People ride folding bikes to the train, slip through traf?c on tricked-out ?xed-gears, and carry children and groceries on their utility bikes. Commuters are giving up their cars Monday through Friday, bike lanes and bike parking are sprouting up all over, and Talking Head David Byrne has designed arty bike racks for various New York City neighborhoods. It’s healthy for riders and clean for the environment, but is it fun? Amy Walker, who has been at the forefront of the urban cycling trend, knows that the answer is yes. She presents stories by a diverse group of cycling enthusiasts and activists that, accompanied by the illustrations of bike culture artist Matt Fleming, show readers why. They say you never forget how to ride a bike; this collection helps us remember why we ride.

Author : Evan Friss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231544245

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On Bicycles by Evan Friss Pdf

Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York’s streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city’s first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle’s place in city life have been so persistent not just because of its many uses—recreation, sport, transportation, business—but because of changing conceptions of who cyclists are. In On Bicycles, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared. It has been central, as when horse-drawn carriages shared the road with bicycle lanes in the 1890s; peripheral, when Robert Moses’s car-centric vision made room for bicycles only as recreation; and aggressively marginalized, when Ed Koch’s battle against bike messengers culminated in the short-lived 1987 Midtown Bike Ban. On Bicycles illuminates how the city as we know it today—veined with over a thousand miles of bicycle lanes—reflects a fitful journey powered, and opposed, by New York City’s people and its politics.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Religious articles
ISBN : LOC:00100957425

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Stained Glass, Bicycles, Religious Articles by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : R.S. Kohn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105106002

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Bicycle Troops by R.S. Kohn Pdf

This report presents a history of the use of bicycles for transportation by combat troops prior to World War I, during World Wars I and II, and more recently the use of bicycles in guerrilla warfare. It was developed in the Vietnam War as a special study for the Pentagon and in this edition it has been enlarged and supplemented with new materials. The armament, mobility, speed, distance, design, and load-carrying capacity of bicycles for transportation in remote areas and guerrilla warfare are discussed, The effect of terrain on the utilization of bicycles, the organization, strength, and tactics of bicycle units, and the training of combat troops using the bicycles are also considered. This volume also contains a rich trove of anecdotes of cyclists in combat and detailed training exercises for bicycle units.

Author : Rider Dealer and Makerr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00133986297

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The modern Bicycle by Rider Dealer and Makerr Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069078099

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The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Hardware
ISBN : MINN:31951000662640P

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Iron Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Public service commissions
ISBN : MINN:31951002622006L

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Proceedings of a National Convention of Railroad Commissioners by National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWXISR

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Good Roads by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Roads
ISBN : NYPL:33433066357579

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L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Patents
ISBN : NYPL:33433063027159

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Subject-matter Index of Applications for Letters Patent, for the Year ... by Great Britain. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Barbara A. Schultz,Mark P. Schultz
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:49015000863028

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Bicycles and Bicycling by Barbara A. Schultz,Mark P. Schultz Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000105548758

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Albany Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1434 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Hardware
ISBN : MINN:31951000662638C

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The Iron Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bicycles
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173022349668

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Lowrider Bicycles by Anonim Pdf