Bicycles

A bicycle is a human-powered, pedal-driven vehicle, first developed in the 19th century and remaining a popular form of transportation and sport today.

Free Country: A Penniless Adventure the Length of Britain
My Bike
Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
Eat, Sleep, Ride: How I Braved Bears, Badlands, and Big Breakfasts in My Quest to Cycle the Tour Divide
The Red Bicycle: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Bicycle
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
Ben Rides On
How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers: A Simple but Brilliant Plan in 24 Easy Steps
The Best Bike Ride Ever
Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle
Off We Go!: A Bear and Mole Story
In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Trancendence
Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike
Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
The Girl and the Bicycle
Duck on a Bike
Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
Bicycle Diaries
Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling
It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance
Crunch
Along a Long Road
Sunraycer by Bill TuckeyAssassination of the Corvair by Andrew J. WhiteAn Airplane in Every Garage by Daniel R. ZuckJail on Wheels by Jacqui ShineThe Aeropleustic Art, or Navigation in the Air by the Use of ... by George Pocock
Disposable Transportation
100 books — 1 voter

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by RowlingThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Spanish Love Deception by Elena  ArmasJust Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
Vehicles on the Cover
380 books — 40 voters
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigMotorcycle Man by Kristen AshleyThe Diary of Bink Cummings by Bink CummingsJupiter's Travels by Ted SimonReaper's Property by Joanna Wylde
Best Motorcycle Books
135 books — 186 voters

Burnout by Rebecca JenshakOne Step to You by Federico MocciaThe Inside of a Rainbow by Bridget L. RoseFor the Record by Juliana SmithPlaying with Fire by L.J. Shen
Bikers romances
18 books — 1 voter
Reaper's Property by Joanna WyldeMotorcycle Man by Kristen AshleyUndeniable by Madeline SheehanOwn the Wind by Kristen AshleyUnbeautifully by Madeline Sheehan
Real Bikers Romance
444 books — 1,617 voters


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Neal Stephenson
I had to ride slow because I was taking my guerrilla route, the one I follow when I assume that everyone in a car is out to get me. My nighttime attitude is, anyone can run you down and get away with it. Why give some drunk the chance to plaster me against a car? That's why I don't even own a bike light, or one of those godawful reflective suits. Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe--to see you, and to give a fuck--you've already b ...more
Neal Stephenson, Zodiac

Robert Penn
And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability. ...more
Robert Penn, It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

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