About Bike Buyer's Guide

Is your bike your transport? If so you need this, the ultimate guide to practical pedalling. Detailed buying advice for the transport cyclist - urban cycling, folding bikes, family cycling, special needs, load-carrying by bike, and long-haul touring. Discover the state of the art on two wheels! Car-free urbanites need feel inferior no longer. Need to transport a washing machine, or a couple of kids? Simple - do it by bike! That's the advice of non-driver and cycle magazine editor Peter Eland, who in this new book shows how specialist cycling gear can make possible the seemingly impossible - safely, and powered by nothing but your breakfast! The book is also packed with invaluable hints about how to make transport by bike easy and fun - whatever the journey, and whatever you're carrying. What's the fastest and most reliable way to get around any city? The bike, of course, and ever more urbanites are embracing cycling for their commute. But what if you have a load to carry, or children to transport, or need to combine cycling with a bus or train trip? In this book you'll discover proven solutions which are now empowering transport cyclists to cover journeys long and short in safety and comfort, reliably and in style.

About Peter Eland

Richard Ballantine is a cycling journalist, writer and advocate, born in America but now principally resident in London, England. He is Chairman of the British Human Power Club and chair of the International Human Powered Vehicle Association. Ballantine's best known work, Richard's Bicycle Book, was published in 1972 at around the time that cycling began to recover in popularity. It was at the head of a new wave of publications advocating the idea that cyclists had a right to use the road, and that their safety, not the convenience of others, should be of paramount importance. He also founded several magazines including Bicycle Magazine. more

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