King of the Road: An Illustrated History of Cycling

King of the road: An illustrated history of cycling

RITCHIE, ANDREW

Wildwood House

Andrew Ritchie traces the history of bicycle racing from its roots in popular entertainment and gymnastic display in the 1860s to its emergence as a classic sport in the 1890s. One of the most equipment-dependent of modern sports, from its beginnings as an arena for testing the products of rival bicycle makers, the sport has had a rich and complex relationship with the industry as bicycle design and technology evolved.

Bicycle Racing: Sport, Technology and Modernity, 1869-1903

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Frank Cass

World champion at 19... One of the first black athletes to become world champion in any sport... 1-mile record holder... American sprint champion in 1898, 1899, 1900... triumphant tours of Europe and Australia... Victories against all European champions...
Until now a forgotten, shadowy figure, Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor is here revealed as one of the early sports world's most stylish, entertaining, and gentlemanly personalities. Born in 1878 in Indianapolis, the son of poor rural parents, Taylor worked in a bike shop until prominent bicycle racer "Birdie" Munger coached him for his first professional racing successes in 1896. Despite continuous bureaucratic―and, at times, physical―opposition, he won his first national championship two years later and became world champion in 1899 in Montreal. This beautifully illustrated, vividly narrated, and scrupulously researched biography recreates the life of a great international athlete at the turn of the century. Based on ten years of research―including extensive interviews with Major Taylor's 91-year old daughter―this is the dramatic story of a young black man who, against prodigious odds, rose to fame and stardom in the tempestuous world of international professional bicycle racing a century ago.

Major Taylor: The Extraordinary Career of a Champion Bicycle Racer

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Johns Hopkins University Press

This book provides the practical advice that all British personal injury litigators handling RTA cases need to advise clients whose claims fall within the new Uninsured Drivers Agreement. These cases have always been fraught with procedural difficulties and the technical nature of the 1999 agreement has only increased the risks of default by claimants and solicitors. Written by Andrew Ritchie and Tara Vindis, specialist personal injury barristers, this Special Bulletin clearly sets out the many potential pitfalls and offers practical guidance to ensure that the client's cases are handled effectively.

Mib Claims

Vindis, Tara

Law Practice

Jordans Pub

A Statistical History of the Sport.

King of the Road

Children's Books

Ten Speed Press+

World champion at 19... One of the first black athletes to become world champion in any sport... 1-mile record holder... American sprint champion in 1898, 1899, 1900... triumphant tours of Europe and Australia... Victories against all European champions...
Until now a forgotten, shadowy figure, Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor is here revealed as one of the early sports world's most stylish, entertaining, and gentlemanly personalities. Born in 1878 in Indianapolis, the son of poor rural parents, Taylor worked in a bike shop until prominent bicycle racer "Birdie" Munger coached him for his first professional racing successes in 1896. Despite continuous bureaucraticâ€”and, at times, physicalâ€”opposition, he won his first national championship two years later and became world champion in 1899 in Montreal. This beautifully illustrated, vividly narrated, and scrupulously researched biography recreates the life of a great international athlete at the turn of the century. Based on ten years of researchâ€”including extensive interviews with Major Taylor's 91-year old daughterâ€”this is the dramatic story of a young black man who, against prodigious odds, rose to fame and stardom in the tempestuous world of international professional bicycle racing a century ago.

Miscellaneous

Bicycle Books

From the earliest "velocipedes" through the advent of the pneumatic tire to the rise of modern road and track competition, this history of the sport of bicycle racing traces its role in the development of bicycle technology between 1868 and 1903. Providing detailed technical information along with biographies of racers and other important personalities, the book explores this thirty-year period of early bicycle history as the social and technical precursor to later developments in the motorcycle and automobile industries.

Early Bicycles and the Quest for Speed: A History, 1868-1903, 2d ed.

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

McFarland

It's been eight years since The Shattering, the day that time unravelled. On a windswept moor there's a body, brutally nailed out across a fracture. One half of the body has been dead no more than an hour or two whilst the other half, ravaged by the passing of decades within a Red Plus Zone, is little more than a skeleton. For DCI Sam McCall, a man whose demons have returned once more to haunt him, discovering the identity of the victim will only be the beginning. In the days that follow, he'll face once more the terrible truths of a world where time is broken, and find himself battling to stay sane amidst the chaos of this new, unforgiving reality.

Red Plus Zone

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Indie

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