A Ride with Bicycle Belles
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The American Motorcycle Girls: A Photographic History Of Early Women Motorcyclists $31.47 Cris Sommer Simmons, something of an American motorcycle pioneer herself, has been collecting photographs of women motorcyclists for nearly thirty years. A long time rider, often on a Harley-Davidson, she has scoured photo collections across the country and then spend hundreds of hours researching the contents of the photographs she has found. This book is the best of her veritable treasure trove…. |
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The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles: Craftsmanship, Elegance, and Function $28.50 The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles is a celebration of the design history and craftsmanship behind this simple but efficient two-wheeled vehicle. Featuring fifty classic models built by hand, this book unveils the bicycle?s technical evolution within a historical context. Beautifully detailed are early-twentieth-century models with multi-gear systems, mid-century machines where war and postwar e… |
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Tour de France/Tour de Force: A Visual History of the Worlds Greatest Bicycle Race $29.95 When the Tour de France was first held, it was only six stages long. Each of those stages, however, was a grueling ultramarathon averaging 400 kilometers for a total Tour length of 2,400 kilometers. The largest margin of victory in the history of the Tour–2 hours, 48 minutes–comes from this race. From 1903 to 1999, Tour de France/Tour de Force covers the history of the world’s greatest… |
