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Summary: With tons of full color, detailed photos and information on a wide variety of components, Complete Bike Maintenance by Fred Mislon makes a good repair and maintenance manual for both the novice looking to learn to wrench and the seasoned hand who needs a refresher on less common parts. Rating: 4/5 Price: $21.99 This [...]

This spring, the fine folks at Wolverine Farm Publishing sent us a copy of the recent Boneshaker: A Bicycle Almanac (plus a few more that were given out as prizes to lucky recipients on our Urban Living Rides.) The pocket field manual size booklet is published twice a year and contains original bicycle related stories, [...]

Summary: BikeSnobNYC’s first jump from new media to old falls flat in an attempt to create an intro to cycling book with an edge. Rating: 2/5 Price: $16.95 In the world of bike bloggers, there are the earnest and the snarky. Usually the twain never meet, but BikeSnobNYC has become one of the rock stars [...]

Summary: More coffee table book than interactive guide for kids, the Pop-up Tour de France book is a nice decorative addition to the collection of a bike racing fan. Knowledgeable Tour watchers will find nothing new in the book, but this makes a fine guide to have out during your Tour watching parties. Rating: 3/5 [...]

I’ll be out of town at a lake house the next week so the subject of beach reading is on my mind. Luckily, I just received the latest incarnation of Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac. The folks at Boneshaker hav been producing this twice a year collection of bicycle inspired stories, poems, drawing, and interviews for [...]

Summary: Documenting an experiment with the effects of social cycling on bike use in young women from Darlington, England, Beauty and the Bike shows a compelling vision of how attainable a cycling culture can be with the right equipment, social network, and basic bicycle infrastructure like bike lanes and paths. Beauty and the Bike Darlington [...]

The Bicyclists Craftmaster Independent DVD available online at The Bicyclists website Overall impression: 3/10 Last night, Portland filmmaker Carl Jameson was kind enough to provide a free showing of The Bicyclists, his feature length film about characters he developed in his online series, The Bicyclist. Both the web series and the film focus on Conrad, [...]

On Monday, we discussed how a community’s bike -friendliness and level of transportation cycling is tied to how well they address the needs and concerns of women. Essentially if you aren’t closing in on gender equity in cycling use, you are never going to make the strides toward real growth in biking as a viable [...]

Race Across the Sky, Leadville Trail 100 Citizen Pictures A one night national showing on October 22, 2009 with encore showing scheduled for November 12, 2009. Overall impression: 6/10 On the weekend of the Texas Custom Bicycle Show, I joined fellow builder Brad Cason of KirkLee Bikes for a viewing of Race Across the Sky. [...]

My experience: Global Ride sent us their 3 set Hawaii Rides DVDs for riding on indoor trainer. I did a workout session on my indoor trainer for each DVD. Quality: 3/5 Utility: 4/5 Overall: 4/5 Availability:  Various Global Ride DVDs are available online at their website for $30 each or $75 for the 3 DVD [...]