How To Rock and Roll : A City Rider's Repair Manual

How To Rock and Roll : A City Rider's Repair Manual Review

"Sam Tracy is the world's Most Dangerous Bike Mechanic! He wants you to ENJOY fixing your bike! He not only wants you to adjust your own bike, he wants you to adjust your attitude! His no-nonsense midwestern radicalism blasts the lycra-chrome designer consumerism that plagues bicycling in its place he asserts the autonomy and human freedom he fervently believes a daily bicyclist can enjoy. This visionary prole hurls invective and epithets, lampoons pretensions and sparks our imaginations. Fix your bike? Sure! Fix the world, too? Why not?!?" Chris Carlsson , Critical Mass pioneer

Bicycle: Bone Shakers, Highwheelers, And Other Celebrated Cycles

Bicycle: Bone Shakers, Highwheelers, And Other Celebrated Cycles Review

This photographic survey is richly illustrated with images of one of the world's largest private collections of bicycles from the 1850s to the 1950s and includes some never-before-published photographs. From antique high wheelers and "boneshakers" to tandems, tricycles, and circus clown bikes, it proves a fascinating historical retrospective of the bicycle's development and evolution. Gil King is a writer, editor, and photographer whose work has appeared in many national publications.

Electric Bicycles: A Guide to Design and Use (IEEE Press Series on Electronics Technology)

Electric Bicycles: A Guide to Design and Use (IEEE Press Series on Electronics Technology) Review

Design or build a battery-powered electric bicycle

For much of the world, bicycles are a transportation mainstay. Electric bicycles--powered by a rechargeable battery pack--are proven to deliver the highest possible energy efficiency, even compared to pedal bikes. A transportation alternative to fossil fuels, electric bicycles are fast catching on, in part because they don't require factory assembly. End-users can easily construct them with available components.

The text reveals important techniques, data, and examples that allow readers to judge various propulsion setups--used in both home- and factory-made bikes--and estimate speed and travel distance for each. Numerous charts clearly present the costs, benefits, and trade-offs between both commercial and user-converted models.

Key features include:

• Estimating motor-performance for wind, hill, and cruising power requirements
• Estimating battery capacity and a thorough description of battery charging
• Motor and motor-control options
• Evaluating motor-to-wheel coupling options
• Placement of propulsion components
• Configurations and performance
• How systems-engineering techniques can produce electric-bicycle designs that have long travel range and low life-cycle cost
• Testing
• Developments to watch

A comprehensive resource for harnessing innovation, Electric Bicycles is the definitive practical guide to taking full advantage of this exciting alternative energy technology.

Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (Inside Technology)

Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (Inside Technology) Review

This book crystallizes and extends the important work Wiebe Bijker has done in the last decade to found a full-scale theory of sociotechnical change that describes where technologies come from and how societies deal with them. Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs integrates detailed case studies with theoretical generalizations and political analyses to offer a fully rounded treatment both of the relations between technology and society and of the issues involved in sociotechnical change.The stories of the the safety bicycle, the first truly synthetic plastic, and the fluorescent light bulb - each a fascinating case study in itself - reflect a cross section of time periods, engineering and scientific disciplines, and economic, social, and political cultures. The bicycle story explores such issues as the role of changing gender relationships in shaping a technology; the Bakelite story examines the ways in which social factors intrude even in cases of seemingly pure chemistry and entrepreneurship; and the fluorescent bulb story offers insights into the ways in which political and economic relationships can affect the form of a technology.Bijker's method is to use these case studies to suggest theoretical concepts that serve as building blocks in a more and more inclusive theory, which is then tested against further case studies. His main concern is to create a basis for science, technology, and social change that uncovers the social roots of technology, making it amenable to democratic politics.Inside Technology series

The Bicycle in Wartime: An Illustrated History (Revised Edition)

The Bicycle in Wartime: An Illustrated History (Revised Edition) Review

'The Bicycle in Wartime' is a landmark work in the field of military history. Complemented throughout with an extensive collection of archival photographs, maps and early book, newspaper and magazine illustrations, this new edition has been revised to include new text and photographs and additional material on 21st century military technology. This book is concerned with three underlying themes. The key concept is that of bicycling, which is fundamental to the role the machine has played in wartime. The military cyclist is not a soldier on wheels, but a soldier with wheels. There is an immense difference. The second theme is how the technology has been exploited and developed for military purposes. Lastly, of special interest, is how the bicycle's use and potential have been perceived. Many military minds dismissed it as irrelevant to warfare, while others adopted it to great effect against their enemies.

Smart Cycling: Successful Training and Racing for Riders of All Levels

Smart Cycling: Successful Training and Racing for Riders of All Levels Review

Intended both for experienced racing cyclists who want to improve their skills and technique, and for recreational riders who want to cycle for fitness or get into racing, this book features a 12-week programme for stationary training. There is also advice on topics such as choosing a bike.

Bicycle Repair

Bicycle Repair Review

Large-format comprehensive and systematic maintenance and repair instructions for road, mountain, and city bikes. Illlustrated with over 500 color photos and other illustrations. Includes chapters on every relevant bicycle component. Includes index and bibliography.