- Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
- Year: 2018
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 240x168mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9781784724955
- Product code: 511387
En Cyclo Pedia
Everything You Need to Know About Cycling, from the Essential to the Obscure
Johan TellPostscript summary
International bicycle culture is celebrated in this stylishly illustrated A–Z of facts and stories. Entries range from how Brooks’ upmarket saddles are made to performance-enhancing drugs and the colour of a race leader’s jersey (not always yellow).
Beautifully illustrated, with hundreds of entries ranging from Tour de France stages to illegal Alley Cat races, and cult heroes to cycling slang, Tell provides a personal insight into this complex world that only a cycling junkie can.
From a pilgrimage to the Bianchi factory in Milan to scouring the streets of New York for the origins of the fixie, via the bicycle cafes of Barcelona and the cobblestones of Flanders, En Cyclo Pedia is a complete A to Z guide to the unique, indescribable character of global bike culture.
Entries include:
- Alley Cat Race
- Bianchi
- BMX
- Brooks
- Cafes
- Campagnolo
- Carbon Fibre
- Drag
- Environment
- Films
- Fixie
- Grand Tours
- Hand-built
- Hipster
- Lycra
- Mountains
- Nutrition
- Oudenaarde
- Paris-Roubaix
- Quicksilver
- Rouleur
- Scalatore
- Shaved Legs
- Style
- Tattoos
- Ultracycling
- Velodrome
- XC
- Zedler
...and many more
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