The Bicycle - A Miscellany on Two Wheels

As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble through the British countryside by bicycle, automobile and train.
Squeeze the brakes, sit back and coast downhill with this irreverent collection of cycling memorabilia. The Bicycle is packed with pictures, fun facts, and light-hearted commentary, gathering photographs of vintage bikes, John Bull puncture repair kits, and misspelled signs rejecting the rights of 'Bycicles' to be locked to railings. Crossing the country from Cumbria to Cambridge, this quaint, pocket-sized manual is a compendium of all things two-wheeled.

About the author

Peter Ashley
is an aficionado of British culture, responsible for the
Unmitigated England
trilogy,
Preposterous Erections
(his book on folly towers) and
London Peculiars
(one of the first books in ACC Art Books' bestselling
London series
).
Peter is renowned for his passion for the oddities that make this
country unique, as Jonathan Meades has said, "He is the gatekeeper to
several generations' memories."

Summary

As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth
remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic
hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble through the
British countryside by bicycle, automobile and train.

Squeeze the brakes, sit back and coast downhill with this irreverent collection of cycling memorabilia.
The Bicycle
is packed with pictures, fun facts, and light-hearted commentary,
gathering photographs of vintage bikes, John Bull puncture repair kits,
and misspelled signs rejecting the rights of 'Bycicles' to be locked to
railings. Crossing the country from Cumbria to Cambridge, this quaint,
pocket-sized manual is a compendium of all things two-wheeled.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley, Peter Ashley
• Publisher: ACC Art Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781788840941
• ISBN: 978-1-78884-094-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 15 mm x 200 mm
• Weight: 294 g
• Illustrations: 102 Farbabb., 15 SW-Abb.
• Series: Travel Miscellany
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Car, motorcycle, moped; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Technikgeschichte, Gift, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Bike, Technology, entdecken, Bicycle, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Design / General, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Bicycling, United Kingdom, Great Britain, cycling, Gift books, Cycle, History of engineering & technology, vintagebike, bikehistory, pocketbookbikelovers, vintagecycle, vintagebicycle