history

Author	Title	Date	Abstract
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Pryor Dodge	The Bicycle	1996	A lavishly illustrated history of bicycles
William Fotheringham	Roule Britannia	2005	A highly readable history of British participation in the Tour de France 1955 – 2004
Jan Heine and Jean-Pierre Praderes	The Golden Age Of Handbuilt Bicycles	2009	A sumptuous photographic history of French touring bicycles manufactured between 1930 and 1950 that recounts a little-known period of cycling history and celebrates two-wheeled engineering at its most delightful
David Henshaw	Brompton Bicycle	2009	An epistle to commuting's magic key that does its subject proud
Harry Hewitt Griffin	Bicycles And Tricycles Of The Year – facsimile introduced by Noel Marsham	1886	A late Victorian bicycle buyers guide providing descriptions and illustrations of nearly 200 wheeled machines, including penny farthings, faciles, tricycles and quadricycles, republished as a facsimile
Paul Howard	Sex, Lies And Handlebar Tape	2008	A biography of Jacques Anquetil, the dominant racing cyclist of the late 50s and early 60s, including his highly unconventional post-career family life
Benjo Maso	The Sweat of the Gods	2005	An alternative history of professional cycle racing focussing on the external, and frequently malign, influences that have shaped the sport
Chas Messenger	Ride And Be Damned	1998	A richly illustrated, but occasionally confused, account of the post second world war split in British racing cycling
S H Moxham	Fifty Years of Road Racing – The History of the North Road Cycling Club	1935	A serious-minded club history that is better on the earlier years of its canvass
Andrew Ritchie	Major Taylor	1988	An important readable biography of one of the most historically important stars of late nineteenth century US cycling
Jay Pridmore	Classic American Bicycles	1999	A quick spin through the history of US cycle manufacture, lavishly illustrated in colour

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’