Not every book on this list will appeal to everyone but I think anyone who shares a love of bicycles and bikes will find something of value on this list. This list is presented in the same format and with the same caveats as my previous list.
I don't describe the books, but each title links to an Amazon page with description, reviews, etc. If you hate Amazon and want to support your local bookshop, go find these books at your local store. I am an Amazon Affiliate so if you do wind up buying one of these books on Amazon after clicking a link from here it will not cost you anything extra but about 6% of the purchase price goes to me. That's the main way I keep the bits flowing through this blog, so if you choose to do that, thank you very much.
While I doubt that I'll compile a third list (a hundred books seems like a nice round number) please feel free to continue to leave comments pointing out more good bicycle books.
And now, without further ado, here's my list of 50 More Good Bicycle Books:
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Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builder's Bonanza
Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide
Bicycle History: A Chronological Cycling History of People, Races, and Technology
Bike Tripping
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Curious George Rides a Bike
Cycling Home from Siberia: 30,000 miles, 3 years, 1 bicycle
Cycling the Great Divide: From Canada to Mexico on America's Premier Long Distance Mountain Bike Route
Eat, Sleep, Ride: How I Braved Bears, Badlands, and Big Breakfasts in My Quest to Cycle the Tour Divide
Every Woman's Guide to Cycling: Everything You Need to Know, From Buying Your First Bike toWinning Your First Race
French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
Ghost Trails
Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180
Hell on Two Wheels: An Astonishing Story of Suffering, Triumph, and the Most Extreme Endurance Race in the World
Hey Mom, Can I Ride My Bike Across America?: Five Kids Meet Their Country
Hungry Cyclist
Into the Remote Places
Iron Riders: Story of the 1890s Fort Missoula Buffalo Soldier Bicycle Corps
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Moods of Future Joys
Mud, Sweat, and Gears: A Rowdy Family Bike Adventure Across Canada on Seven Wheels
Need for the Bike
On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life
Richard's 21st Century Bicycle Book
Riding Outside The Lines: International Incidents and Other Misadventures with the Metal Cowboy
Rough Ride: Behind the Wheel With a Pro Cyclist
Round Ireland in Low Gear
Sloane's Complete Book of Bicycling: The Cyclist's Bible (25th Anniversary Edition)
Spokesongs: Bicycle Adventures on Three Continents
Stealing from a Deep Place: Travels in Southeastern Europe
Super Grandpa
Ten Lessons from the Road
The Bicycle Wheel
The Bike Lesson
The Complete Book of Long-Distance Cycling: Build the Strength, Skills, and Confidence to Ride as Far as You Want
The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography
The Happiness of Pursuit: A Father's Courage, a Son's Love and Life's Steepest Climb
The Lead Goat Veered Off: A Bicycling Adventure on Sardinia
The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa
The Quotable Cyclist: Great Moments of Bicycling Wisdom, Inspiration and Humor
The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America's Jazz-age Sport
The Urban Biking Handbook: The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living
The Wind in My Wheels: Travel Tales from the Saddle
The Wonderful Ride
Thunder & Sunshine
Travels With Rosinante: 5 Years Cycling Round the World
Travels in a Strange State
Two Wheels And A Map: A Solo Bicycle Journey Down The East Coast
Wheels Within Wheels
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Keep 'em rolling,
Kent "Mountain Turtle" Peterson
Issaquah, WA USA
5 comments:
Yikes! I guess i'm a fanatic. It's scary to see how many i've already read. Now to get back to the unreads.
All books fold, but not all books are about bicycles. At the same time, given enough motive force, all bicycles book, even though most of them do not fold. In other words, I think your latest list just about covers it. Thanks for putting it together.
One more:
"The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power" by Travis Hugh Culley
Out of print but still available online or at the library.
OMG! No Anne Mustoe?! How we have failed you not ot have mentioend her before. Her "A Bike Ride" got many of us non-athletes out on the road. She's written 6 or so books, all available on Amazon. She died in Syria 2 years ago while on yet another tour.
Hi Kent,
I noticed you read our comments. Good list! (Cycling) book lovers are welcome to join www.goodreads.com.
For Dutch readers - like me - there's another good website: www.wielerboeken.nl.
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