A couple of months ago, the publicity manager for the Independent Publishers Group offered to send a review copy of William Fotheringham’s new book Cyclopedia: It’s All About the Bike (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2011). Funny how that title keeps popping up..since Lance Armstrong’s It’s Not About the Bike, a number [...]
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Book Review: “Cyclopedia” by William Fotheringham
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Book Review: “It’s All About the Bike” by Robert Penn
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of receiving a review copy of It’s All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels by Robert Penn (New York: Bloomsbury, 2010). The book is the retelling of the author’s quest in obtaining a custom, handmade bicycle, and I hate to gush so early [...]
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Book Review: “Jackfruit” by David E.X.N. Nghiem
Towards the end of last year, author David Nghiem contacted us to see if we were interested in taking a look at his book Jackfruit: A Bicycle Quest Through Latin America (Bangor, ME: Booklocker.com, 2009). Being a fan of bicycle travelogues, I of course said YES! Jackfruit is the story of Nghiem’s personal and spiritual [...]
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Panniers & Peanut Butter
Longtime readers of Bikecommuters.com may remember Russ Roca, our good friend and contributor to the site. Russ and his partner Laura sold most of their belongings a little over a year ago and embarked on an open-ended bicycle journey across the United States. Now, with all that experience under their wheels, they compiled a bunch [...]
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Book Review: “Pedaling Revolution” by Jeff Mapes
I recently had the pleasure of reading Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities by Jeff Mapes (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009). Mr. Mapes is a political reporter for the Oregonian, and he put together a great overall look at American bicycle culture. Mapes gives a pretty thorough overview of the major (and [...]
