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Aardman animation	The Peculiar Adventures Of Hector	2007	A stunning piece of animated story telling deployed as a children's road safety campaign
dir John Badham	American Flyers (film)	1985	An affecting tale of two brothers' complicated relationship with each other, and cycle racing, much of the action for which comes from an early 1980s edition of the Coors Classic
Mark Beaumont	Speaker tour	2010	Two epic rides recounted on a tour of 38 major venues
Matthew Engel	Eleven Minutes Late	2009	An enjoyable journalistic survey of Britain's railway network and its history
News from Tartary – a journey from Peking to Kashmir	Peter Fleming	1936	An account of a famous 3,500 trek through China and into India
Nikki Giovanni	Bicycles	2009	A book of 'popular' poetry whose premise is a clumsy metaphor
ed Harley M Leete	The Best Of Bicycling!	1970	Seventy eight articles culled from the US magazine Bicycling!'s late 1960s numbers that are as lively, fascinating and, horizon-expanding, as they were on original publication
Cycling To Work, A Beginners Guide	Rory McMullan	2007	A useful primer for those who have not cycled to work before
Blake Morrison	Too True	1998	A collection of pieces by one of the UK's most poetic writers - worth seeking out for the short story and the article about cycling
Mike Parker	Map Addict	2009	British maps and their meanings entertainingly plotted across the contours of writer's own obsession with them
David Taylor	The Bicycle - the complete BBC series	1990	A well-made and insightful series of television programs on all aspects of cycling
Derek Roberts	Cycling History Myths And Queries	1991	A fastidiously researched exploration 166 ‘issues’ in cycling history, arranged in question-and-answer style, mainly concerned with the nineteenth century development of the bicycle and the first ‘golden age’
Ronald F Sudbury	Stamp Collecting For The Cyclist	1981	An illustrated catalogue of stamps issued between 1887 and 1979 that feature bicycles
François Truffaut	Jules et Jim	1962	An atmospheric and beautifully constructed portrait of a menage à trois and the gathering troubles of the twentieth century, some of it conducted on bicycles
Gavin Turk	Les Bikes Du Bois Rond	2010	A jolly event-as-art piece in on bicycles around Essex and Suffolk
Warrington Cycle Campaign	Crap Cycle Lanes	2007	A stocking-filler book cataloguing the failings of UK cycle-lane construction
Peter Yates	Breaking Away	1979	FILM: Class, cycling and smokestack Americana in a film whose appeal is undiminished by time

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