Biking


It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
Bicycle Diaries
The Breakaway
You & a Bike & a Road
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
The Rider
The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Trancendence
Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance
Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling
Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Go, Gwen, Go by Nancy Smirl JorgensenIron War by Matt FitzgeraldEat & Run by Scott JurekWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki MurakamiBelieve, Live, Run by Bertalan Thuroczy
Ironman Inspiration
37 books — 11 voters
Crazy River by Richard GrantRunning Away to Home by Jennifer  WilsonThe Table Comes First by Adam GopnikHidden Cities by Moses GatesRoadfood by Jane Stern
Rick Steve's Radio Show Guests
31 books — 3 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Urban Homestead by Kelly CoyneThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Being "Green"
390 books — 239 voters

Gary Klein
Biking is about rhythm and flow. It's the wind in you face and the challenge of hammering up along hill. It's the reward at the top and the thrill of a high-speed descent. Biking lets you come alive in both body and spirit. After awhile the bike disappears beneath you and you feel as if you're suspended in midair. ...more
Gary Klein

Just off the roaring, high-velocity motorways and the congested main roads, there is still a leisurely, low-decibel, cyclists' England. Here, quite apart from national parks, conservation areas and other tourists' high spots is an unspectacular, intimate countryside: and it is the cyclist, himself unspectacular, not the motorist, who is best equipped to enjoy its pleasures of pub, church, market-place and cottage in all their variety of regional character. ...more
Frederick Alderson, England by Bicycle

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