"The need for the bike" by Paul Fournel is both the best and the
smallest book about bicycling I have read in a long time. I recommend
it highly.
http://unp.unl.edu/
Keven Ruf
Seattle
>>> "Tom Martin" <tom@wilsonbike.com> 12/30/03 04:21PM >>>
Please excuse me if this has been covered but with all this talk of
books and films with or about bikes, it got me wondering- what is on
everyones bookshelf, besides bike porn? By 'porn' I mean just pictures
and drwaings of bikes and parts. D. Rebour, with all due respect, will
fit into this category, as well as all those fine collections of campag
catalogues. I'd like to hear more about books like Tim Krabbe's The
Rider, an excellent memoir that was dug out of a bookstore (Cody's in
Berkeley CA) by my girlfriend. I can think of some more contemporary
books like Hugh Travis Culleys autobiographical The Immortal Class and
Lynn Breedlove's Godspeed Novel, but that's about it. The Critical Mass
10th anniversary book would kinda fit into this description too, but
maybe there's something else besides memoirs and topical/ anecdotal
descriptions of bike culture? Something a little deeper and well
written?
And the same goes for films. We all know about the Bicycle Thief. What else is under your TV set?
Tom Martin Oakland CA Where the rain has me reading a lot of books lately.