Bicycle Traveler

 

Bicycle Traveler 11

À propos du magazine

Bicycle Traveler is a free international magazine devoted to bicycle touring. Packed with stunning photography and entertaining stories, it will make you want to grab your bike and hit the road.

Bicycle Traveler was launched in 2011. We aimed to create a magazine that showcases bicycle travel and delves into why people dream of undertaking round-the-world tours.

BT’s carefully curated collection of articles and photographs are gathered from a diverse group of cycling enthusiasts worldwide. With the recent boom in bicycle touring, our magazine base has grown to over 20,000 dedicated subscribers.

As BT begins its 6^th year, we are more passionate than ever about publishing high quality content that resonates with our adventure-minded readers and illustrates the wonderful world of two-wheeled travel.

In addition Bicycle Traveler also features interviews plus information on the newest gear and rider setups.

 Le numéro 11

 In the 11th issue we are introducing a new series, ‘Ready to Roll’ wherein riders explain their travel style and corresponding equipment choices. The idea behind this is to highlight the wide gamut of gear-setups for cyclists.

Grace Johnson - Editor of Bicycle Traveler Magazine

 Commentaire de Jean-Yves Mounier

Heureux les anglophones qui peuvent lire en toute liberté ce magazine entièrement dévolu au voyage à bicyclette à travers textes et photos de toute beauté. Pour le télécharger, il suffit de s'inscrire sur le site qui offre également la possibilité de découvrir de superbes livres de photographies parmi lesquels je recommande spécialement « Little Red Cyclist » , la poésie se dégageant de ces photos m'ayant particulièrement touché.

 2016 – 60 pages – En téléchargement gratuit sur le site de l'éditeur. 

 

Hadland Tony and Lessing Hans-Erhard

 

 

Bicycle design

An illustrated History

Auteurs : Tony Hadland & Hans-Erhard Lessing

Le vélo se classe comme l'un des véhicules les plus durables et les plus largement utilisés dans le monde, avec plus d'un milliard produit au cours de deux cents ans d'histoire du cyclisme.

Ce livre propose un compte rendu complet et faisant autorité de l'évolution technique et historique de la bicyclette, dès les premiers vélocipèdes (inventés pour combler le besoin de transport sans cheval pendant une pénurie d'avoine) aux vélos de course modernes, VTT et vélos couchés.

Il retrace le développement de la bicyclette en termes de matériaux, d'ergonomie et de physique des véhicules tels qu’ils ont été réalisés par les inventeurs, les entrepreneurs et les fabricants.

Écrit par deux grands historiens du vélo et généreusement illustré de dessins historiques, de modèles et de photographies, Bicycle Design décrit les principales étapes de l'évolution de la bicyclette, à commencer par l'idée paradoxale de l'équilibre sur deux roues en ligne, par le développement de roues à rayons tenseurs, des entraînements indirects (employant des leviers, des poulies, des chaînes et des roues à chaîne), et des pneumatiques. Les auteurs examinent le prochain développement de la bicyclette à des fins spécifiques comme la course, la portabilité et l'utilisation tout-terrain ; et ils décrivent l'évolution des composants du vélo, y compris les sièges, la transmission, les freins, les feux (au début il s’agissait de lumière à base de bougies), et le transport (grilles, sacoches, sacs, sièges pour enfants, et side-cars).

Ils prennent en compte non seulement des modèles ayant eu du succès, mais aussi des échecs commerciaux qui ont ouvert la voie à des développements technologiques futurs. Et ils démystifient certains mythes au sujet des vélos, comme par exemple, l'idée erronée, mais souvent cité que Léonard de Vinci dessina dans ses carnets un vélo avec entraînement à chaîne. Malgré la longue histoire et le succès grand public de la bicyclette, son histoire technologique a été négligée. Ce livre qui traite de manière attrayante et détaillée de ce thème comble cette lacune. Ce sera le point de départ de toutes les histoires futures de la bicyclette.

 Livre en anglais : traduction d'Isabelle Reutin

2014 – 584 pages – The MIT Press https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/bicycle-design

Prix : $36.95

 

Manser Riaan

Around Africa on my bicycle

Auteur : Riaan Manser

In a world first, almost incredibly, Riaan Manser rode a bicycle right around the continent of Africa.

It took him two years two months and fifteen days, he rode 36,500 Km through 34 different countries.

In Around Africa on my bicycle Manser tells the story of this epic journey. It is a story of blood, sweat, toil and tears. It is a story of triumph and occasional disaster. Of nights out under the stars, of searing heat and rain, of endless miles of Africa and of pressing on and never surrendering whatever the odds.

Mostly however it is the story of one man’s courage and determination to escape the mundane and see the continent he loves and feels so much a part of. It is the story of the human warmth he encounters, and occasionally human wrath and hostility as he crosses troubled countries and bordres.

Riaan Manser was born in 1973 Pretoria. He grew up in Zululand and attended John Ross College in Richards Bay. After studying Human Resource Management he took a job in the medical industry.

He has been a lifesaver, a surfer and a rugby player. When he took to bis bicycle to ride around Africa it was a commitment to do something entirely extraordinary with his life.

He is now an author and motivational speaker – and is looking for his next adventure.

« The book is a mélange as varied, tasty and often frightening as the range of cuisine he experienced. It is bright, entertaining and insightful travel writing about a continent that sorely needs a good press.

Jean-Jacques Cornish, Africa correspondent. »

« Fascinating and unusual ... a wonderful optimism shone through.

Johon Robbie, 702 Talk Radio. »

2007- 705 pages – Éditeur : Jonathan Balls publishers – Johannesburg & Cape Town.

Disponible à la vente sur www.riaanmanser.co.za/

Norcliffe Glen

Critical Géographies of Cycling – History, Political Économy and Culture

Auteur : Glen Norcliffe

Préface : This book presents a collection of 11 connected thematic essays. They are not intended, however, to tell a sequential tale, indeed they weave chronologically from the past to the présent and back again so that the reader may choose to read them according to individual interest without losing the thread. But they are connected by themes, by their critical stance, and their interrogation of cycle and related cycling activities. For the appearance of this book I have to thank primarily Ron Buliung at the University of Toronto, who in 2013 created a graduate course on “Geographies of Cycling“. He kindly asked me to talk to his class, and then pressed me as to how he could obtain a number of the essays that I had published. The answer was “with difficulty“, in many cases because they were published in the annual Proceedings og the International Cycle History Conference which are not widely available. Perhaps it was obvious, but it took a few weeks for the point to sink in, and then a light bulb came on and I asked Ashgate, who have an interest in both transportation and geography, whether there would be any benefit in bringing these fugitive essays together, along with a few articles I have published in more accessible journals, plus two new essays, an opening chapter to present an overview, and the final chapter to offer a geographical viewpoint on the current battle for the street. It must have been providence that guided my letter to Ashgate into the hands of their editor for Human Geography, Katy Crossan, who responded favourably to the proposal and has since patiently and creatively guide dit through various steps and hurdles.

It was also my good fortune that I was a Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge at this time (Michaelmas Term, 2013) which allowed me to disconnect myself from many other activities and focus exclusively on research and writing. I thank the Master and Fellows of the College for this privilege. In the process, I relearned the pleasures of cycling around Britain’s most cycling friendly city, and have been able to incorporate a few of the lessons learned there into the text. But that is a recent event whereas participants at the annual International Cycling History Conference, which I have attended most years for the past two decades, have informed me about many aspects of cycling on which I was quite ill-informed, and critiqued early drafts of a number of the essays presented here. Like many other participants I have to thank Nick Clayton for launching that Conference 25 years ago.

To my mind one of the hallmarks of geography is the need to get out of our armchairs and observe things for ourselves. And if the object of our inquiry is no longer around, we seek out what people living at that time saw and wrote about it. This is not, however, a plea for rampant empiricism : theory informs the best geographical work, necessarily so since many of the key processe creating the landscape such as flows of capital, power relation, and social dynamics are often concealed . And those theoretical underpinnings need in turn to be confirmed by observing the real world : praxis and theory, and theory and praxis.

I have taken the opportunity to lightly revise the essays, and in one or two cases added additional comment. Mostly, however, I have shortened them and dropped some of the bookish phrasing that deadens academic prose. But they do all pursue the post-structural position in viewing understandings of the bicycle as contingent upon time and place, which presents a great opportunity for geographers. The result is that widespread processes such as the rise of the E-bike, the Cyclists’ Rights Movement, and the globalization of bicycle making need to be interpreted in different ways in different places.

Naming everyone who helped with the writing of these essays over a 20 year period is not possible, there have deen simply too many, so I hope they will accept this broad thank-you. I am grateful to my co-authors for permitting the reproduction of essays already published. Many friends have ridden with me on long rides in Europe and North America passing on their wisdom in such brilliant places as Lithuania , and again I offer my appreciation for these extended lessons Ron Miller helped me solve mechanical problems beyond my competence and Dave Brown and many others kept me smiling when the weather turned against us. I hope that the wisdom passed on by so many friends has resulted in essays that provide insight as well as enjoyment.

2015- 275 pages, relié, format 15,9 X 23,5 – Editeur : Ashgate Publisshing Limited – Collection : Tranport and Society. http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id...

 

De gauche à droit : Stuart Mason-Elliott, Glen Norcliffe, Carey Williams, Gilles Tamagne, Alain Cuvier, Dominique Lefébvre, Keizo Kobayashi.

Départ du Paris -Avigon le 8 août 2015, rue Jean Goujon à paris pour commémorer le 150^ème anniversaire du premier voyage à vélo du monde par les frères Olivier et Georges de la Bouglise en 1865.

 

 

Guroff Margaret

The Mechanical Horse : How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life (Discovering America)

Auteur : Margaret Guroff

With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bikeshare stations, bicycling is enjoying a new of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience. And relative affordability of the bicycle. The earliest two-wheeler, the draisine, arrived in Philadelphia in 1819 and astonished onlookers with the possibility of propelling themselves ‘like lightning.’ Two centuries later, the bicycle is still the fastest way to cover ground on gridlocked city streets. Filled with lively stories, The Mechanical Horse reveals how the bicycle transformed American life. As bicycling caught on in the nineteenth century, many of the counytry’s rough, rutted roads were paved for the first time, laying a foundation for the interstate highway system. Cyclists were among the first to see the possibilities of self-directed, long-distance travel, and some of them (including a fellow named Henry Ford) went on to develop the automobile. Women shed their cumbersome Victorian dresses as well as their restricted gender roles, so they could ride. And which helped to modernize medicine. Margaret Guroff demonstrates that the bicycle’s story is really the story of a more mobile America, one in which physical mobilility has opened wider horizons of thought and new opportunities for people in all avenues of life.

2016- 216 pages – Publisher University of Texas Press – http://www.amazon.com/The-Mechanical-Horse-Reshaped-Disco...

Prix : 19,56 $

McCullough Robert L.

 

Old Wheelways

TRACES OF BICYCLE HISTORY ON THE LAND

Auteur : Robert L. McCullough

In the later part of the nineteenth century, American bicycliste were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys – in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths (wheelways) – building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them. Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. In Old Wheelways, Robert McCullough restores the pioneering cyclists of the nineteenth century to the history of American landscapes. McCullough recounts marathon cycling trips around the Northeast undertaken by hardy cyclists, who then describe their journeys in such magazine as The Wheelman Illustrated and Bicycling World, the work of illustrators (including Childe Hassam, before his fame as a painter), efforts by cyclists to build better rural roads and bicycle paths, and conflicts with park planners, including the famous Olmsted firm, who often opposed separate paths for bicycles. Today’s ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to nineteenth century version, including New York City’s ‘asphalt ribbons.’ Long before there were ‘rails to trails,’there was a movement to adapt existing passageways – including aqueduct corridors, trolley rights-of-way, and canal towpaths – for bicycling. The campaigns for wheelways, McCullough piont out, offer a prologue to nearly every obstacle faced by those advocating bicycle paths and lanes today. McCullough’s text is enrichep by more than one hundred historic images of cyclists (often attired in skirts and bonnets, suits and ties), country lanes, and city streets.

2015- 384 pages – Éditions Mit Pr - http://www.amazon.com/Old-Wheelways-Traces-Bicycle-Histor...

Prix : 25,86 $

Ehmann & Klanten

VÉLO - 2 ND GEAR

Bicycle culture and style

Éditors : S. Ehmann & R. Klanten

About this book : Choosing to ride a particular bike conveys an attitude and a way of life. Vélo-2 nd Gear illuminates and celebrates contemporary bicycle culture’s diverse scenes. From classic racing bikes to hightech speed machines, from rough fixies to fashionable city cruisers and hardworking cargo bikes, this book showcases today’s most outstanding and unusual bicycles and their riders. Vélo- 2 nd Gear not only introduces coveted manufactureres, specialized boutiques, and historical tours. It also explains how each bike-related scene cultivates its own distinct codes through the choiceof certain frames, jerseys, caps, or bags or by visiting specific events or key establishments. In doing so, the book shows why, for more and more people, bicycles have now replaced cars as the vehicles that best express their identity.

2013- 256 pages – Éditions : Gestalten – http://shop.gestalten.com

Prix : 38 €

Nicky Slade

The cyclist’s anthology

Compiled by : Nicky Slade

In this fascinating anthology on cycling and journeys by bicycle, Nicky Slade has drawn on the writings of more than 50 literary figures and famous personalities : J. G. Ballard, John Betjeman, Quentin Blake, Arthur conan Doyle, E. M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Jerome K. Jerome, D.H. Mawrence, Somerset Maugham, Dervla Murphy, Eric Newby, Dorothy Sayers, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells and Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins among many Others.

2015- 160 pages. Ed : Trailblazer Publications. http://www.trailblazer-guides.com

Prix : 14,60 €

Street Roger

                                       BEFORE THE BICYCLE

                                   The Regency Hobby-Horse Prints

Auteur : Roger Street

The hobby-horse velocipede was all the rage in the spring and summer of 1819, dozens could be seen at any one time in London and elsewhere. This was the earliest form of personal transport on wheels, pre-dating the bicycle by more than forty years. The machine’s novelty ensured that it was of very general interest, but in some places it was ridiculed, particularly when ridden by the smart young genthemen of the day, the Regency dandies.

The Prince Regent himself owned four hobby-horse velocipedes.

In only a few months, some eighty hobby-horse prints were produced by a variety of artists and publisshers, some depicting the hobby-horse and its derivatives in a favourable light, others gently mocking the craze. For the very first time this book displays colour reproductions of all the hobby-horse prints for a twenty-first century spectator to view, with an explanatory note for each print. A brief introduction at the beginning of the book discusses the history of the pedestrian hobby-horse phenomena, and aspects of the many prints to which it gave rise. A foreword by Regency historian Kathryn Kane provides a wider historical perspective.

This is not just a book for the cycle historian to have in his library. It is a panorama of magnificent, colourful, and sometimes slightly rude, images for everyone to enjoy.`

2014- 174 pages, format 21 X 29,50 – Artesius Publications .

Prix : 30 €

100 years of bicycle posters

                        100 YEARS OF BICYCLE POSTERS

 Auteur : Jack Rennert

Texte en anglais, 112 pages, reproductions en couleurs et en noir et blanc , en pleine page.

1973- 112 pages -format In-4 (40,5x28 cm) Éditions Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London.

Schwinn Bicycle Company

NO HANDS – The Rise and Fall of the Schwinn Bicycle Company, an American Institution

Auteurs : Judith Crown – Glenn Coleman

Langue : Anglais

Retour sur l'une des plus emblématiques marques américaines de vélo...

Pour des générations d'américains, il n'y avait pas de meilleur vélo qu'un Schwinn.

La compagnie, fondée en 1895 par Adolph Arnold et Ignaz Schwinn à Chicago (à l'époque nommée « The Arnold, Schwinn & Company of Chicago »), de par sa qualité de conception et son innovation, a eu une influence conséquente sur le marché du cycle nord-américain une bonne partie du XX^e siècle.

Ignaz Schwinn, dont le nom de famille est devenu un acronyme de vélo là-bas, arriva aux États-Unis avec pour simple richesse son savoir-faire en terme de manufacture industrielle, acquis en tant qu'ouvrier immigrant apprenti machiniste dans les usines allemandes.

Entre 1900 et 1930, Schwinn a produit approximativement 45 000 vélos chaque année, dans un marché très fluctuant et dont la Grande Dépression a vu de nombreuses usines du secteur fermer leurs portes pour de bon.

L'influence de Frank W. Schwinn va définitivement façonner la manière dont on conçoit un vélo aux États-Unis. Il pousse les fabricants de composants à concevoir des pièces plus solides et plus durables, il introduit les gardes-boues ou encore les fameux pneus ballons.

En 1941, ce sont plus de 340 000 vélos qui sortent des lignes de production Schwinn, et en 1950, un vélo sur quatre fabriqué aux USA est un Schwinn ! Le modèle haut-de-gamme Black Phantom va vite devenir un must-have chez les minots de cette période, avec ses détails chromés et sa garantie à vie.

L'influence de Schwinn a également beaucoup changé la manière de vendre les vélos. En 1948, terminé les vélos vendus dans les grandes chaînes de magasin, Schwinn veut se servir de sa réputation pour vendre autrement. S'en suit alors une politique marketing et commerciale très agressive. La compagnie pousse les détaillants à faire allégeance à leur marque et à vendre exclusivement des modèles Schwinn à leur clientèle. Elle se concentre aussi sur le levier publicitaire, en utilisant les étoiles montantes du moment pour faire la promotion de leurs modèles

1963 voit l'introduction de l'iconique modèle Stingray, une réponse directe au non moins célèbre  Raleigh Chopper qui cartonne chez les jeunes, avec son guidon en hauteur et son siège banane.

 Mais ce succès se révélera malheureusement éphémère. Alors que Schwinn s'imposait comme la marque qui comptait dans les années 70, une usine vieillissante et une direction réticente à embrasser les tendances alors naissantes du BMX et du VTT, auront eu raison de cette réussite.

En 1993, la société est revendue et quittera le marché du vélo haut-de-gamme pour celui de la grande distribution. Pour autant, la marque semble depuis quelques années renaître petit à petit de ses cendres sur le sol US.

Extraits de l'article paru sur le site : Weelz.fr - http://www.weelz.fr/fr/velo-urbain/2015/04/14/histoire-sc...et avec son accord.

Des catalogues de cette marque sont également consultables ici : http://schwinncruisers.com/catalogs/

1996- 350 pages –Éditeur : Henry Holt & Co –

 

Murphy Dervla

THE UKIMWI ROAD

From Kenya to Zimbabwe

Dervla Murphy must be the toughest female travel writer of our age.  One turns the page only twice in this latest book before finding her beaten by club-wielding paramilitary troopers as she flees a protest rally in Nairobi.  And almost its final image is of her alone in the middle of the Zimbabwean bush, 40 miles from the nearest doctor, exhausted, prostrate, head cushioned on an elephant turd - all the consequence of a severe malaria attack.  Yet, the 3,000 miles between these two fraught moments were covered on a bicycle which she bought on her 60th birthday. . .

http://www.dervlamurphy.com/theukimwiroad.html

1993- 288 pages -

 

South from the LIMPOPO

TRAVELS THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA

When Dervla Murphy first pedalled across the Limpopo she fancied that she ‘understood’ South Africa’s problems because for more than forty years she had – from a distance – taken a particular interest in them.  Twelve hours later that illusion was shattered.

South from the Limpopo reflects her moods of confusion and elation, hope and disappointment as she tries to come to terms with a country even more complex and fractured – but also more flexible – than she had expected.  Her journey of over 6,000 miles took her through all nine provinces of the new South Africa.  From remote impoverished ex-homeland villages, to the luxurious homes of rich whites, the scruffy homes of poor whites and in the black township of Khayelitsha, Dervla experienced the contrasting social conditions of South Africa’s people.  Dervla Murphy bicycled alone through this extraordinary and haunting nation during a period of great uncertainty and tumultuous change (before, during and after the elections) with her remarkable ability to mix and share with people of all colours, creeds and political persuasions, she provides a unique perspective on South Africa with its apparently insoluble problems and desperate inequalities – a country she truly came to love.

1997- 432 pages –

http://www.dervlamurphy.com/southfromthelimpopo.html

 

FULL TILT : Ireland to India with a bicycle

When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the daily diary she kept while riding through Persia, Afghanistan and aver the Himalayas to Pakistan and India.

Alone woman on a bicycle (with a revolver in her trouser pocket) was an almost unknown occurrence and a focus of enormous interest wherever she went. Undaunted by snow in alarming quantites, and using her .25 pistol on starving wolves in Bulgaria and to scare lecherous Kurds in Persia, her resourcefulness and the blind eye she turned to personal danger and extreme discomfort were remarkable.

2010- 256 pages – Éditions ELAND  www.travelbooks.co.uk/b#1DB0C97

Prix : £ 12.99

 

Extrait de l’article paru dans “Cycle ! magazine 3 “ www.rossolis.ch   

DERVLA MURPHY, UNE PENSÉE EN ROUE LIBRE

(photo: Dervla Murphy et Claude Marthaler)

Lismore, 27 juin 2014

 Nous sommes à Lismore, à quelques heures de route de Dublin et venons de frapper à la porte d’une grande dame, qui n’a pas perdu une once de passion en poursuivant son petit bonhomme de chemin. Elle nous accueille par une énergique poignée de main et un « Une bière ? ». S’éclipse et s’en revient, empoignant trois canettes fraîches, suivie par ses trois chiens,dont l’un s’appelle Guinness, comme la bière qu’elle apprécie. Dervla prend le temps de recevoir, avec le sourire et à la bonne franquette. Elle n’est pas du genre à s’embarrasser de formalités. Pain maison, olives, bière et ginger ale. Tout y est brut et délicieux à la fois, sans manières ni faux-semblants. Le thé aussi coule à profusion, Dervla veille à ce que nos verres soient pleins. Il fallait s’y attendre, la conversation nous entraînera loin de Lismore, très loin et dans toutes les directions. Elle est comme ça Dervla. Intrépide, émerveillée. Sacrée Dervla !

En matière d’interview, c’est elle qui me pose des questions, le regard vif, éclatant volontiers de rire, curieuse de tout, de connaître nos avis. Tempérament sanguin. La simplicité même liée à l’érudition. Cheveux courts, masculine. Sa voix rauque trahit un excès d’alcool, de cigarettes et de café. Elle tient sa révolte et son érudition de son père bibliothécaire, un fier indépendantiste, autrefois proche de l’IRA. Sa mère, malgré sa maladie dégénérative ne s’est jamais plainte et l’a beaucoup encouragée. « C’était ma grande ambition d’écrire. Il est important de savoir jeune ce qu’on sait faire et d’accepter ses limites. Je n’ai par exemple aucun talent pour les langues étrangères ou la photographie, qui ne sert que de notes à ma mémoire. »  « J’ai le privilège de vivre de ce que j’aime », ajoute-t-elle. « Avec l’âge, cela devient de plus en plus dur d’écrire. Ma fille me seconde et s’occupe de l’editing ».

Dervla s’émerveille en feuilletant mon livre de photos (Dans la roue du monde). Lorsque je lui demande ce qui fait un bon livre de voyage, elle n’évoque pas le style, mais dit simplement : « Pour un bon récit de voyage, il faut s’éloigner des routes. Moins on possède d’argent, plus on est en contact avec le pays. Lorsqu’on voyage seul, on est en totale dépendance, c’est un bon départ car on montre aux autres qu’on leur fait confiance. » À l’opposé de jeunes écrivains de voyage qui aiment à mélanger réalité et fiction, elle pense qu’un auteur de récits de voyage doit s’en tenir aux seuls faits. Mélanger fiction et réalité n’est pas une bonne idée, parce que les générations futures risquent de prendre ces récits comme des témoignages historiques. Ou alors, il faut clairement avertir le lecteur. En effet, donner de l’importance à la mémoire est une question de responsabilité.                 Claude Marthaler

http://www.dervlamurphy.com/books.html

 

Heine Jan - Pradères Jean-Pierre

 

 

                            The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles.

                               L’âge d’or des bicyclettes artisanales.

Auteurs : Jan Heine - Photography : Jean-Pierre Pradères

The 50 classic bicycles in this book display amazing craftsmansship, élégance and function. Each brought innovations that continue to de used today.

With renewed inter est in « real world » bicycles that combine the speed and excitement of racing bikes with unmatched reliability and versatility « The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles » provides a timely review of what bicycles can be.

Une brochure en français, traduction du livre est vendue avec l’ouvrage.

Ce magnifique livre nous relate un demi-siècle de ces fabricants artisans novateurs du vélo, et en devient un ouvrage indispensable pour mieux comprendre l’histoire de la bicyclette.

Jean-Pierre Pradères nous offre avec ces cent cinquante photos de ces belles machines un véritable livre d’art.

-2005- 167 pages - Paris - Jean-Pierre Pradères 26, rue des Maraîchers – 75020 Paris.

Prix : 50€ port compris

Va être réédité en février 2015 chez Éditions Rizzoli

Zheutlin Peter

Around the world on two wheels
Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride

Auteur : Peter Zheutlin

 

« Peter Zheutlin’s thoroughly researched account wil make you wish you’d been around to catch a glimpse of the extraordinary woman as she went wheeling by. »
Bill Littlefield, National Public Radio’s Only a Game.
Until 1894 there were no female sport staes, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle.
Annie Londonderry changed all of that.

When Annie left Boston in june of that year, she was a brash young lady with a 42 pound bicycle, a revolver, a change of underwear, and a dream of freedom. She was also a feisty mother of three who had  become the center of what one newspaper called “one of the most novel wagers ever made“ : a high-stakes bet between two wealthy merchants that a woman could not ride around the world on a bicycle. The epic journey that followed took the connection between athletics and commercialism to dizzying new heights, and turned Annie Londonderry into a symbol of women’s equality.

A vastly entertaining blend of social history, high adventure, and maverick marketing. Atound World on Wheel sis an unforgettable portrait of courage, imagination, and tenacity.

“Annie was a remarkable woman and well worth getting to know.“
Booklist
“A wonderful telling of one of the most intriguing, offbeat, and until now, lost chapters in the history of cycling.“

 

2007 – 260 pages – Citadel

Pour en savoir plus, voir le site que l'auteur consacre à son héroïne.

Lire l'article de Claude Marthaler paru dans La Liberté et Annie Londonderry, ou le premier tour du monde féminin à vélo (pp. 143-147) in A tire-d'Elles,Femmes, vélo et liberté
Un article très complet sur le site "Le petit braquet".
Annie Londonderry a également inspiré le collectif cyclo-féministe "Les dérailleuses" pour son fanzine.

Sutherland Louise

Spinning the Globe

Auteur : Louise Sutherland

Louise was a small woman with a big heart. She knew virtually nothing about bicycles, except what really mattered, and so became a cycling legend without winning a single race. Instead Louise Sutherland planned her own route – one that was far longer and rougher than any Tour de France. She was the first person ever to cycle right across Brazil, through the Amozon Jungle.

-2013- 101 pages – Kindle Editions

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Price : $ 20

Tom Phillips

                      BICYCLES – Vintage people on photo postcards

Auteur : Tom Phillips

Langue : Anglais – Une sélection de 200 cartes postales vélo des années 1890 à 1950.

-2011- 112 pages, format 19,6 x 18,2 – Éditeur : The Bodleian Library. http://www.bookdepository.com/contactus

Prix : 26,60 € + 2,99 de frais port.

 

Vanman Cécilia

CYKLERNES BY COPENHAGEN - CYTY OF BICYCLES

 Auteur : Cécilia Vanman

Photography : Robin Maddock

Livre bilingue : Danois -Anglais

 Présentation traduite par Ulla Einersen.

 Au Danemark tout le monde se déplace à bicyclette. Même le prince héritier se promène souvent avec ses enfants dans un tricycle-livreur et c’est normal de voir un parlementaire parquer son vélo devant le parlement ou un acteur traverser le centre ville avec son filet à provisions suspendu au guidon. Les habitants de Copenhague expriment leur style et leur individualité dans leur choix de vélo. On pédale avec des chaussures à talon, côte à côte à sur la piste cyclable les amies mènent de longues conversations et avec une main sur le guidon on envoie des SMS avec l’autre, on parle au téléphone, boit du café, écoute la musique ou transporte les chiens, les enfants et d’innombrables filets de provisions - le tout sur deux roues. Les habitants de Copenhague vivent pratiquement sur leur vélo et la ville est pleine de vendeurs et de réparateurs de vélo, de gens qui fabriquent eux-mêmes leurs vélos, de collectionneurs et de toutes sortes de bicyclettes.

Avec la focalisation croissante sur la santé, l’exercice corporel et le développement durable, le monde focalise sur l’utilisation du vélo au Danemark.

Les urbanistes du monde entier vont à Copenhague pour voir de leurs propres yeux comment la bicyclette peut s’intégrer d’une façon naturelle dans la vie d’une métropole.

Dans son livre - LA VILLE DES BICYCLETTES - (Cyklernes by) CéciliaVanman nous  donne une description engagée des multiples aspects de la cyclo-culture des Danois, en collaboration avec le photographe britannique Robin Maddock dont les photos ajoutent la fascination d’un étrange vis à vis de la capitale des bicyclettes.

 

 

 

Cécilia Vanman : Biologist and journalist. Her main boby of work focused on natural history and travel adventure. Amongst Other ways, she has conveyed these subject matters through reportage work on film expeditions in the Canadian High Arctic and travels in northeastern Greenland with the Danish elite unit Sirius Sledge Patrol. Cécilia lives in the Christianshavn quarter in Copenhagen and rides a vintage men’s bicycle, which will soon be joined by a custom-built racer.

 -2010- 195 pages  - format 21,50 X 25,50 - Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck A/S - Landemaerket 11, 5. Sal - 1119 Kobenhavn K

www.nytnordiskforlag.dk   - [e-mail] 

Prix : 50 €