Bicycle Book-- Wit, Wisdom & WanderingsJoyce, ed 150pp/illus ISBN 9780972919159 A celebration of the bicycle by people who love to ride. Thomas Hylton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and newspaper columnist, kicks off the collection with "Bicycling and Walking," a sensible, prescriptive editorial on why cycling-friendly communities are winners. On his heels is "Keeping Up With Lance," Scott Roberts' exclusive, one-on-one interview with Chris Carmichael, Lance Armstrong's long time coach and friend. Two prominent names in cycling journalism ù Richard Fries, editor of Bike Culture, and Maurice Tierney, publisher of Dirt Rag - comment on the future of bicycling. Other contributors include Scottish author-cartoonist John Stuart Clark, a.k.a. Brick; Bill Joyce: Ted Katauskas; and Gianna Bellofatto, whose "Life Is a Bike" series is ever clever, pleasantly quirky, and always an American original. The book also includes contributions by newspaper editor and touring cyclist, Jill Homer; travel writer and bike book author, Theresa Russell; writer, editor, and former racer, Bradley Swink; Chip Haynes, prolific cycling essayist-humorist and daily bike commuter; owner of Breton (France) Bikes Cycling Holidays and former editor of Cyber Cyclist, Geoff Husband; Wire Donkey Bike Zine editor and founder, Mason St. Clair; Andy Wallen, bike shop owner-mechanic and Ask the Mechanic columnist; and Alan Ira Fleischmann, who celebrates the "geek" in all bikers Item Status: In stock as of this morning | |||