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Author : Samuel Sidney McClure,J. F. McClure,J. S. Phillips,C. E. Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Cycling
ISBN : UOM:39015070320877
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Sports
ISBN : UOM:39015070320505
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : UOM:39015073316450
Author : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Department of Parks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Parks
ISBN : HARVARD:LI2GHZ
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069078123
Author : Juliet Macur
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780062277244
The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall. In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the truth. She was one of the few media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to be granted extended one-on-one access to the most famous pariah in sports. At the center of Cycle of Lies is Armstrong himself, revealed through face-to-face interviews. But this unfolding narrative is given depth and breadth by the firsthand accounts of more than one hundred witnesses, including family members whom Armstrong had long since turned his back on—the adoptive father who gave him the Armstrong name, a grandmother, an aunt. Perhaps most damning of all is the taped testimony of the late J.T. Neal, the most influential of Armstrong's many father figures, recorded in the final years of Neal's life as he lost his battle with cancer just as Armstrong gained fame for surviving the disease. In the end, it was Armstrong's former friends, those who had once occupied the precious space of his inner circle, who betrayed him. They were the ones who dealt Armstrong his fatal blow by breaking the code of silence that shielded the public from the grim truth about the sport of cycling—and the grim truth about its golden boy, Armstrong. Threading together the vivid and disparate voices of those with intimate knowledge of the private and public Armstrong, Macur weaves a comprehensive and unforgettably rich tapestry of one man's astonishing rise to global fame and fortune and his devastating fall from grace.
Author : Carlton Reid
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610916899
Cyclists were written out of highway history in the 1920s and 1930s by the all-powerful motor lobby:Roads Were Not Built For Cars tells the real story, putting cyclists center stage again. Not that the book is only about cyclists. It will also contains lots of automotive history because many automobile pioneers were cyclists before becoming motorists. A surprising number of the first car manufacturers were also cyclists, including Henry Ford. Some carried on cycling right through until the 1940s. One famous motor manufacturing pioneer was a racing tricycle rider to his dying day.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cycling
ISBN : UOM:39015058779185
Author : Duane Swierczynski
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312343787
His money stolen and his battered carcass left for dead, getaway driver Lennon is on a mission to find out who is responsible--and to get back his loot. A dirty cop, the Russian and Italian mobs, the mayor's hired gun, and a musician maneuver for position as this novel twists and turns toward its conclusion.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Cycling
ISBN : UOM:39015095200021
Author : Robert L. McCullough
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780262552493
How American bicyclists shaped the landscape and left traces of their journeys for us in writing, illustrations, and photographs. In the later part of the nineteenth century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys—in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths (“wheelways”)—building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them. Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. In Old Wheelways, Robert McCullough restores the pioneering cyclists of the nineteenth century to the history of American landscapes. McCullough recounts marathon cycling trips around the Northeast undertaken by hardy cyclists, who then describe their journeys in such magazines as The Wheelman Illustrated and Bicycling World; the work of illustrators (including Childe Hassam, before his fame as a painter); efforts by cyclists to build better rural roads and bicycle paths; and conflicts with park planners, including the famous Olmsted Firm, who often opposed separate paths for bicycles. Today's ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to nineteenth century versions, including New York City's “asphalt ribbons.” Long before there were “rails to trails,” there was a movement to adapt existing passageways—including aqueduct corridors, trolley rights-of-way, and canal towpaths—for bicycling. The campaigns for wheelways, McCullough points out, offer a prologue to nearly every obstacle faced by those advocating bicycle paths and lanes today. McCullough's text is enriched by more than one hundred historic images of cyclists (often attired in skirts and bonnets, suits and ties), country lanes, and city streets.
Author : Jesse J. Gant,Nicholas J. Hoffman
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870206146
On rails-to-trails bike paths, city streets, and winding country roads, the bicycle seems ubiquitous in the Badger State. Yet there’s a complex and fascinating history behind the popularity of biking in Wisconsin—one that until now has never been told. Meticulously researched through periodicals and newspapers, Wheel Fever traces the story of Wisconsin’s first “bicycling boom,” from the velocipede craze of 1869 through the “wheel fever” of the 1890s. It was during this crucial period that the sport Wisconsinites know and adore first took shape. From the start it has been defined by a rich and often impassioned debate over who should be allowed to ride, where they could ride, and even what they could wear. Many early riders embraced the bicycle as a solution to the age-old problem of how to get from here to there in the quickest and easiest way possible. Yet for every supporter of the “poor man’s horse,” there were others who wanted to keep the rights and privileges of riding to an elite set. Women, the working class, and people of color were often left behind as middle- and upper-class white men benefitted from the “masculine” sport and all-male clubs and racing events began to shape the scene. Even as bikes became more affordable and accessible, a culture defined by inequality helped create bicycling in its own image, and these limitations continue to haunt the sport today. Wheel Fever is about the origins of bicycling in Wisconsin and why those origins still matter, but it is also about our continuing fascination with all things bicycle. From “boneshakers” to high-wheels, standard models to racing bikes, tandems to tricycles, the book is lushly illustrated with never-before-seen images of early cycling, and the people who rode them: bloomer girls, bicycle jockeys, young urbanites, and unionized workers. Laying the foundations for a much-beloved recreation, Wheel Fever challenges us to imagine anew the democratic possibilities that animated cycling’s early debates.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Athletics
ISBN : UIUC:30112004332141
Author : David Walsh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501133190
The basis for the upcoming major motion picture The Program directed by Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena), starring Chris O'Dowd as journalist David Walsh and Ben Foster as Lance Armstrong. When Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France in 1999, the sports world had found a charismatic new idol. Journalist David Walsh was among a small group covering the tour who suspected Armstrong’s win wasn’t the feel-good story it seemed to be. From that first moment of doubt, the next thirteen years of Walsh’s life would be focused on seeking the answers to a series of hard questions about Armstrong’s astonishing success. As Walsh delved ever deeper into the shadow world of performance-enhancing drugs in professional athletics, he accumulated a mounting pile of evidence that led a furious Armstrong to take legal action against him. But he could not make Walsh—or the story—go away, and in the autumn of 2012, Walsh was vindicated when the cyclist was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. With this remarkable book, Walsh has produced both the definitive account of the Armstrong scandal, and a testament to the importance of journalists who are willing to report a difficult truth over a popular fantasy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : PRNC:32101072311739
