Re: [CR]bike kulture

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:28:17 -0800
From: "Keven Ruf" <keven.ruf@Seattle.Gov>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]bike kulture


"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/bookinfo/4408.html

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.