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Mountain biking
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ISBN: 0873224523 Year: 1993 Publisher: Champaign Human Kinetics

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Serious cycling
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ISBN: 087322759X Year: 1995 Publisher: Champaign Human kinetics

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Cycling cultures
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ISBN: 9781908258939 1908258934 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chester

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Cycling studies is a rapidly growing area of investigation across the social sciences, reflecting and engaged with rapid transformations of urban mobility and concerns for sustainability. This volume brings together a range of studies of cycling and cyclists, examining some of the diversity of practices and their representation. Its international contributors focus on case studies in the UK and the Netherlands, and on cycling subcultures that cross national boundaries. By considering cycling through the lens of culture it addresses issues of diversity and complexity, both past and present. The


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City cycling
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ISBN: 1283691981 0262305917 9780262305914 9781283691987 9780262517812 0262517817 0262304996 9780262304993 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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A guide to today's urban cycling renaissance, with information on cycling's health benefits, safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike lanes, bike sharing, and other topics.


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Bicycling for transportation : an evidence-base for communities
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ISBN: 0128126434 0128126426 9780128126431 9780128126424 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Oxford, United Kingdom ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier,

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"Bicycling for Transportation examines the individual and societal factors of active transportation and biking behavior. The book uses an Interdisciplinary approach to provide a comprehensive overview of research related to bicycling for transportation. The book examines the variability in biking participation among different demographic groups, and the multiple levels of influence on biking, to better inform researchers and guide practitioners in the effective use of community resources, programming, and policy-making"--Back cover.


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First Taste of Freedom : A Cultural History of Bicycle Marketing in the United States
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ISBN: 9780815654391 0815654391 9780815635734 9780815635918 Year: 2018 Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press,

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"First Taste of Freedom" is a work of American cultural history focused on the bicycle market in the United States. A primary goal of the research was also to understand how the bicycle can be seen so differently in the US as opposed to other countries"--


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Cycling and recycling : histories of sustainable practices
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ISBN: 9781782389705 9781782389712 9781789200553 1789200555 1782389717 1782389709 Year: 2016 Volume: 7 Publisher: New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn,

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Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies—bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.


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Cycling futures
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ISBN: 1925261166 1925261174 9781925261172 9781925261165 9781925261189 1925261182 9781925261196 1925261190 Year: 2015 Publisher: Adelaide University of Adelaide Press

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The focus of the first half of the book is largely on the current engagement with cycling, challenges faced by existing and would-be cyclists and the issues cycling might address. The second half of the book is concerned with strategies and processes of change. Contributors working from different ontological positions reflect on changing socio-spatial relations to enable the broadest possible participation in cycling.


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Claiming the bicycle : women, rhetoric, and technology in nineteenth-century America
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ISBN: 0809334453 9780809334452 9780809334445 0809334445 Year: 2016 Publisher: Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press,

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"Claiming the Bicycle' considers how American women encouraged one another to adopt a new technology--the bicycle--adapt it to their own purposes, and use it to transform cultural assumptions about femininity and gender difference."--


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Culture on Two Wheels : The Bicycle in Literature and Film
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ISBN: 0803290454 0803290438 9780803290433 9780803290440 0803290446 9780803290457 9780803269729 0803269722 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

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"Analyzes how print and visual texts of various kinds reflect, refract, and respond to the social and political significance of the bicycle from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present"-- "Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as "vehicles" for that text's themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban elite to reconnect with nature and for women to gain a measure of personal freedom, while during World War II it became a utilitarian tool of the French Resistance and in 1970s China stood for wealth and modernization. Lately it has functioned variously as the favored ideological steed of environmentalists, a means of community bonding and aesthetic self-expression in hip hop, and the ride of choice for bike messenger-idolizing urban hipsters. Culture on Two Wheels analyzes the shifting cultural significance of the bicycle by examining its appearances in literary, musical, and cinematic works spanning three continents and more than 125 years of history. Bringing together essays by a variety of cyclists and scholars with myriad angles of approach, this collection highlights the bicycle's flexibility as a signifier and analyzes the appearance of bicycles in canonical and well-known texts such as Samuel Beckett's modernist novel Molloy, the Oscar-winning film Breaking Away, and various Stephen King novels and stories, as well as in lesser-known but equally significant texts, such as the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's film Sacrifice and Elizabeth Robins Pennell's nineteenth-century travelogue A Canterbury Pilgrimage, the latter of which traces the route of Chaucer's pilgrims via bicycle. "--

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