Urban Bikers' Tricks & Tips: Low-Tech & No-Tech Ways to Find, Ride, & Keep a Bicycle
by Dave Glowacz
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Filled with practical tips that any adult bike owner can use instantly, this book includes advice on everything from how to handle a sore butt and choose accessories to how to avoid helmet hair and mount a bike while wearing a miniskirt. This updated edition contains new and revised information about current bike types, locks, and recent products such as the strap-on magnet that lets bikers change traffic lights to green. An updated supplier directory and list of bicycling resources, such as show more web sites and advocacy groups, are also included. Illustrated with step-by-step instructions on ev show lessTags
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Dave G. interviewed hundreds of riders and distilled their hard-won knowledge, along with his great skills and love of urban cycling to make this book.
It's an instant classic, that will have even hardcore city cyclists saying, "wow, yeah, that works!"
It's an instant classic, that will have even hardcore city cyclists saying, "wow, yeah, that works!"
Suitable for novice or advanced. There is good advice for both. A must for the beginning commuter. Well-illustrated.
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Dave Glowacz, known worldwide as Mr. Bike, has dodged cars, beat thieves, and biked roads for over 30 years. As a bike instructor with the League of American Bicyclists, Mr. Bike has talked and ridden with cyclists in every major metro area in North America. His articles on cycling basics appear in Bicycling magazine, and his Safe Bicycling series show more of books have won international praise. show less
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- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 629.28472 — Technology Engineering Other branches of engineering Motor land vehicles, cycles Tests, driving, maintenance, repair
- LCC
- GV1043.7 .G56 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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