Cycle Zoo - Bikes for the 21st Century

Bicycles are wonderful tools for exercise, reconnection, refreshment and transport. But human powered transport is more than just bicycles. This book introduces bicycles and some practical alternatives through summaries, interviews and home made cycles made with timber, 3d printing, steel and aluminium. Included are load carrying, city cycling, electric bikes, volunteering, recumbent bikes, trikes, and leaning trikes.

About the author

Stephen Nurse is a mechanical engineer and industrial designer who has toured and raced on home- made- and designed- cycles since 1987. He has worked in the pump, printing, plastic rotomoulding and electric motor industries. He is editor of the OzHPV magazine Huff, lives in Melbourne Australia and has a grown up family.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Nurse
• Publisher: Siverbird Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2021
• EAN: 9780648925248
• ISBN: 978-0-648-92524-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 894 g
• Subject: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > General, dictionaries, handbooks