By Robert Hurst, Marla Streb
Author note: Marla Streb (Foreword)
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The bicyclist is lower than assault from all instructions - the streets are ragged, the air is poison, and the drivers are offended. as though that weren't adequate, the yank bicycle owner needs to hold the load of heritage alongside on each ride.
After a quick heyday on the flip of the 20th century, American cyclists fell out of the social cognizance, turning into an afterthought while our towns have been deliberate and outfitted. Cyclists at the present time are left to navigate, like rats in a sewer, via a difficult and unsympathetic global that was once no longer made for them. but, with the right kind perspective and a little bit wisdom, cyclists can thrive during this opposed environment.
Covering even more than simply driving a motorcycle in site visitors, writer Robert Hurst paints, in uncanny aspect, the demanding situations, innovations, and paintings of using a motorcycle on America's sleek streets and roadways. The paintings of Cycling dismantles the bicycling adventure and slides it below the microscope, piece by means of piece. Its fundamental difficulty is protection, yet this publication is going well past the standard information and how-to, diving in to the nation-states of heritage, psychology, sociology, and economics.
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