• "The Raleigh Story" by Gregory Bowden (David Rowe's review)
• "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction" by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
• "Divorce Your Car!" by Katie Alvord
• "Icons of Design: the 20th Century" by Volker Albus (Intro), Reyer Kras (Editor), Jonathan M. Woodham (Editor)
• "The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey
• Adventure Cycling Magazine
• Asphault Magazine
• A to B Magazine
• "Bicycling" by Nancy Neiman Baranet
• "Bicycle Love" edited by Garth Battista
• "Home Economics" by Wendell Berry
• "What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry" (Northpoint Press 1990)
• The Man Who Loved Bicycles by Daniel Behrman (Harpers 1973)
• "Green Shadows, White Whale" by Ray Bradbury
• "How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built" by Stewart Brand
• "Ninth Wave" by Eugene Brudick
• "The Giro D'Italia : Coppi Vs. Bartali at the 1949 Tour of Italy" by Dino Buzzati
• Bike Culture Quarterly formerly produced by Open Road, no longer available...
• "The Limits of Power" by Andrew Bachevich
• "The Great Bicycle Adventure" by Adrian Crane
• "The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power" by Travis Hugh Culley
• "The Backbone of the World" by Frank Clifford
• Cycle Sport USA (American version of British monthly)
• Cycling Plus (aka C+)
• "The Wind in My Wheels" by Josie Dew
• "Suburban Nation" by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
• "Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic" by John De Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor
• "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond
• "The Guinness Guide to Bicycling" by J. Durry, Edited by J.B. Wadley (Guinness Superlatives Ltd., copyright 1977 - English language ed. ISBN 0 900424 62 1)
• "House of Sand and Fog" by Andre Dubus III
• Bladerunner Phillip K. Dick
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Phillip K. Dick
• "Need For The Bike" by Paul Fournel
• "Effective Cycling" by John Forester (Piaw recommendation to is the chapter on cycling in the mountains)
• "Raising the Bar" by Gary Erickson and Lois Lorenzen
• "Horizon Bound on a Bicycle" by Evind Earle (1937)
• "Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything" by James Gleick
• "My Life on Two Wheels" by Clifford L. Graves
• Virtual Light William Gibson
• Neuromancer William Gibson
• "The Old Way of Seeing (How Architecture lost its Magic [and How to Get it Back])", by Jonathan Hale (Houghton Mifflin 1994)
• "A Bicycle Journey to the Bottom of the Americas" by George Hawkins
• "Bicycle: the History" by Dan Herlihy
• Tales from the Bike Shop, by Maynard Hershon (Piaw recommendation)
• Maynard Hershon's columns in a VeloNews and California Bicyclist (Piaw recommendation)
• "The War Against Parents" by Cornel West and Sylvia Ann Hewlett
• "Into the Remote Places" by Ian Hibell and Clinton Trowbridge
• "Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States" by Kenneth Jackson
• "Off the Map: Bicycling across Siberia" by Mark Jenkins
• "Ordinary Wolves" by Seth Kantner
• "Asphalt Nation" by Jane Holtz Kay
• "No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies" by Naomi Klein
• "BikeLore" by Gabe Konrad
• "Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey" by Goran Kropp
• "Geography of Nowhere" by James Howard Kunstler
• "Home from Nowhere" by James Howard Kunstler
• "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing
• "Culture Jam" by Kalle Lassn
• Bike Paintings by Taliah Lempert
• "Freewheeling; A solo Journey Across America" by Richard Lovett
• "The Same Ax, Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age" by Howard Mansfield
• "Following the Sun: From Andalusia to the Hebrides" by John Hanson Mitchell
• "The Long Way" by Bernard Moitessier
• "Blue Highways" by William Least Heat Moon
• "The Transformation of American Capitalism" by John Munkirs
• "The Velvet Monkeywrench?" by John Muir (no, not that one). Illustrations by Peter Aschwanden, published by John Muir Publications, Santa Fe, 1973.
• "Pushcart War" by Jean Merrill (children's story)
• "The Assault" by Harry Mulisch
• "Full Tilt" by Dervla Murphy
• "A Voyage For Madmen" by Peter Nicols'
• "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien
• "The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa" by Neil Peart (of RUSH)
• "Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road" by Neil Peart (of RUSH)
• "The Book Of The Bicycle" by Roger St. Pierre
• "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community" by Robert D. Putnam
• Bike Cult by Dave Perry (New York, Four Walls, 1995)
• "Catfish and Mandala" by Andrew X. Pham
• The non-training parts of Phinney and Carpenter's "Training for Cycling" (Piaw recommendation)
• "Coercion: Why We Listen to What 'They' Say" by Douglas Rushkoff
• Ride Cycling Review (Australian quarterly)
• Rivendell Reader
• "The Overspent American" by Juliet Schor
• "The Overworked American" by Juliet Schor
• "The Responsive Chord" and "Media: The Second God" by Tony Schwartz
• "Teach Yourself Cycling" by R. C. (Reginald) Shaw
• "A Christmas Story" by Jean Shepard (Kent's version)
• "Around the World on a Bicycle" by Thomas Stevens (ISBN: 0811726533)
• "The Old Neighborhood : What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999" by Ray Suarez
• "The fastest bicycle rider in the world, the story of a colored boy's indomitable courage and sucess against great odds" Autobiography by Marshall W. "Major" Taylor
• "Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences" by Edward Tenner
• "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst" by Nicholas Tomalin & Ron Hall
• "A Fool on Wheels - Tangier to Baghdad by Land-Rover" by Barbara Toy
• "How To Rock And Roll" by Sam Tracy
• "Envisioning Information" by Edward R. Tufte
• "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward R. Tufte
• "Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative" by Edward R. Tufte
• "A Dirt Road Rider's Trek Epic" by Victor Vicente of America
• "Seeing Myself, Seeing the World" by Sally Voiland
• Vintage Bicycle Quarterly
• Velo Vision Magazine
• "Old Roads and New" by J.B. Wadley
• "The Age of the Bicycle" by Miriam Webster
• "Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle" by David Wilson
• "On Your Bicycle - The Illustrated Story of Cycling" (York 1999, ISBN 1-898457-05-0)
• "Lomokome Papers" by Herman Wouk
• Fifty Books on Bikes list by Lisa Williams (not all BOBish, but bikey)
• "Wheels of Chance" by H.G. Wells
• Web Sites and Mailing Lists
  • www.cyclingforum.com
  • www.velonews.com
• Other Places to Find Books
  • www.gutenberg.org
  • manybooks.net (Free in many formats for portable readers)
• Bicycle Podcasts
  • iPodder.org - Bicycle Podcast Directory
  • Podbike - The Bicycle podcast directory
  • The Fredcast
  • The Bike Show (London)
  • MTBCast
  • Cycling Insight

When running iTunes:
-- Click on 'The iTunes Store'
-- Click on 'Podcasts'
-- Search for 'bicycle podcast'
Most podcasts are free downloads.
(Thanks to Jeff Kwapil, Kenneth Lyons, Bill Connell)

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