Everyday Bicycling: How to Ride a Bike for Transportation (Whatever Your Lifestyle)

by Elly Blue

Overview

Everyday Bicycling is a guide to everything you need to know to get started riding a bicycle for transportation. Elly Blue introduces you to the basics, including street smarts, bike shopping, dressing professionally, carrying everything from groceries to children to furniture, and riding in all weather. With its positive, practical approach, this book is perfect for anyone who has ever dreamed of riding a bicycle for transportation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621067252
Publisher:	Microcosm Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/2012
Series:	Bicycle
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 5.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Elly Blue is an author and activist who lives in Portland, Oregon. She writes about the economic and equity cases for bicycle transportation.

Table of Contents

Foreword 4

Introduction 6

How to Ride a Bike 8

Your Life, By Bike 28

Bicycle Adoption, Care, and Feeding 46

Carrying Things By Bike 69

Family Bicycling 84

Get organized 111

Conclusion 126

Acknowledgements 127

Editorial Reviews

"Designed to fit in your back pocket while you ride, this slim little zine is part tour-guide, part civic history book, and will bring you up to (ten) speed on Portland's unstoppable bike culture."  —Portlandia IFC

"A great book for the budding cyclist with know-it-all aspirations and little time to commit. And it's something you can grow with as a cyclist, with helpful reminders that what’s right for one is not necessarily right for all." —www.grist.org

"Bicycling is one thing each of us can do that will have an immediate, positive impact on the environment. This book is an excellent place to start."  —Matthew Modine, actor and founder, Bicycle for a Day

"Bicycling was key to simplifying my life and this book will help you make your life better too. It's like the friend you wish you had who can patiently show you all the details that make bicycling fun rather than frustrating."  —Tammy Strobel, author, Simply Car-free and Smalltopia

"When it comes to bicycling, knowledge is power. This book gives you the knowledge you need to get around under your own steam. It's a real life guide for real people with places to go and things to do."  —Mia Birk, author, Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet

"Blue takes cycling and makes it digestible to cyclists and would-be's in a friendly, laid-back tone. Absent of any authoritarian voice, this is the book I wish I had years ago." —www.UrbanVelo.org

"Elly Blue’s Everyday Bicycling is one of the rare books that deserve to be called 'perfect.' I finished reading it and thought everyone, absolutely everyone, should read a copy."  —Jan Heine, Editor, Bicycle Quarterly

"And her book is what anyone who wants to start enjoying bicycle transportation can use: a collection of hard-won wisdom, delivered by someone who really cares." —www.TheAtlanticCities.com

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