Bicycle Culture

Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity.

Wanna ride? From the very first bicycles to basic biking how-to tips, this book touches on all things you need to know to get you started.

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The Bicycle Book takes you on two intertwining paths. One is the author’s fond oftentimes funny tale of being a newbie paperboy at the tender age of 12. Adventures in customer relations become lifetime lessons thanks to Steve’s quirky, brilliantly pedagogical dad, a top advertising executive given to Socratic Q&A dialoguing and mealtime family seminars.

Dennis Wilson (Sticks) takes you on a gripping tale of life in the Projects. What began as innocent kids in a bicycle gang eventually became something much more. But family is not always what it seems in this raw, entertaining mystery. The body of a local drug dealer is discovered, Detective Faye-Lynn Johnson assigned the case, and everyone becomes a suspect, including her boyfriend. Conflicting facts soon emerge as she grapples with this baffling mystery.

The Bicycle Shop is a front for running a safe house in Kansas. The visitors coming and going are humans from other worlds and visit this world to learn and move forward. The “ranch” is run by a colorful older woman, and the program manager is the owner of the bicycle shop.

Brought to you by Penguin. The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost...