On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life
Amy Walker, Editor
On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life
New World Library, Novato, CA • 2011
Urban biking is flourishing. It's emission-less, cheap, readily accessible transportation that improves health and brings together communities. And it's fun! On Bicycles shares inspiring essays by enthusiastic cyclers who believe in the transformative power of biking. Whether it's to turn back the clock on aging as described in "Youth, Sex and Cake; the Physical Gifts of a Bicycling Lifestyle" or to explore the culture of artisan bike builders in "The Art and Craft of Handmade Bicycles," each chapter celebrates the bicycle as an "incredibly simple and revolutionary technology that can quite radically transform our lives." The freedom we find on a bicycle is the freedom we find from leaving our possessions behind. "Less is More." Through bicycling we physically interact with our environment, connect with others and move at our own pace in a way that affords us the opportunity to be grateful for what we have.
