Bicycle History
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Miles from Nowhere
- A Round the World Bicycle Adventure
- By: Barbara Savage
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles from Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed! Along the way, these near-neophyte cyclists encountered warmhearted strangers eager to share food and shelter, bicycle-hating drivers who shoved them off the road, various wild animals, rock-throwing Egyptians, overprotective Thai policeman, motherly New Zealanders, meteorological disasters, bodily indignities, and great personal joys.
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easy to listen to and informative
- By J Hasler on 01-05-2024
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Miles from Nowhere
- A Round the World Bicycle Adventure
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 12-05-2020
- Language: English
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This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles from Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed....
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Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
- By: Jody Rosen
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike—and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife, and a flashpoint in culture wars for more for than 200 years.
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A nice history of bicycling.
- By Anand on 25-10-2022
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Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-08-2022
- Language: English
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In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife, and a flashpoint in culture wars for more for than 200 years....
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White Bicycles
- Making Music in the 1960s
- By: Joe Boyd
- Narrated by: Joe Boyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Joe Boyd tells of his journey through Sixties music, from tour managing Muddy Waters and Coleman Hawkins, to plugging in Bob Dylan's electric guitar while working as production manager at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, to becoming a leading record producer. His first session was Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood's "Crossroads" followed by Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny and many more.
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So Good !!!
- By Grapsta on 15-02-2021
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White Bicycles
- Making Music in the 1960s
- Narrated by: Joe Boyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2013
- Language: English
- Joe Boyd tells of his journey through Sixties music, from tour managing Muddy Waters and Coleman Hawkins to becoming a leading record producer....
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The Bike Soldiers
- By: Pferron Doss
- Narrated by: Dan Schoeneberg
- Length: 7 mins
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Did you know that in the late nineteenth century, the United States military used bikes to travel from one place to another? They were a new invention and a quicker way to travel than walking. Lieutenant James Moss and twenty soldiers tested the durability of bikes by traveling through six states from the West to the Midwest to prove its usability in the military.
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The Bike Soldiers
- Narrated by: Dan Schoeneberg
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 10-10-2024
- Language: English
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Did you know that in the late nineteenth century, the United States military used bikes to travel from one place to another? They were a new invention and a quicker way to travel than walking.
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The Brompton
- Engineering for Change
- By: William Butler-Adams, Dan Davies
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Lightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn't the only folding bicycle—or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its marvelous design (virtually unchanged over decades) and the particular joy of riding it. Will Butler-Adams, CEO of Brompton Bicycles, has been at the company for twenty years. Initially, he worked as an engineer for Andrew Ritchie, the bike's brilliant inventor and the business's founder, before taking the helm in 2008.
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The Brompton
- Engineering for Change
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2023
- Language: English
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Lightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn't the only folding bicycle—or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its marvelous design (virtually unchanged over decades) and the particular joy of riding it....
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Old Wheelways
- Traces of Bicycle History on the Land
- By: Robert L. McCullough
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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In the later part of the 19th century, American bicyclists 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.
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Old Wheelways
- Traces of Bicycle History on the Land
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 25-05-2017
- Language: English
- In the later part of the 19th century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory....
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Tour de France: The Inside Story
- Making the World's Greatest Bicycle Race
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: Oscar Sparrow
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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The Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick for a floundering newspaper. More than 100 years later, the Tour still captivates the world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men looking for some way to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? Les Woodland tells the inside story of the Tour de France through the prism of the men who started it, and those who now run it.
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Tour de France: The Inside Story
- Making the World's Greatest Bicycle Race
- Narrated by: Oscar Sparrow
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2014
- Language: English
- Les Woodland tells the inside story of the Tour de France through the prism of the men who started it, and those who now run it....
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The Green Bicycle Mystery
- Who Shot Bella Wright?
- By: Edgar Jepson
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 40 mins
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'The Green Bicycle Mystery' is Jepson's account of a true unsolved murder case. Bella Wright was found lying dead beside her bicycle on a lonely country lane in Leicestershire. She had been shot through the head. The last person seen in her company was a man on a green bicycle. When months later a green bicycle is dredged from a canal, the police are hot on the track of the mystery man.
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Fascinating 100 year old Mystery
- By Sue on 29-05-2019
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The Green Bicycle Mystery
- Who Shot Bella Wright?
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2017
- Language: English
- 'The Green Bicycle Mystery' is Jepson's account of a true unsolved murder case. Bella Wright was found lying dead beside her bicycle on a lonely country lane in Leicestershire....
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The Coyote's Bicycle
- The Untold Story of Seven Thousand Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire
- By: Kimball Taylor
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 13 hrs
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It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers - coyotes - and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished.
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The Coyote's Bicycle
- The Untold Story of Seven Thousand Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 28-11-2018
- Language: English
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It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca....
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The Mechanical Horse
- How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
- By: Margaret Guroff
- Narrated by: Margaret Guroff
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge 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".
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The Mechanical Horse
- How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
- Narrated by: Margaret Guroff
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-05-2017
- Language: English
- With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America....
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Cycling's 50 Triumphs and Tragedies
- The Rise and Fall of Bicycle Racing's Champions
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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When more than 100 men or women go racing down a road, inches away from each other, in all weather, over all kinds of roads, the opportunity for a brilliant win or a terrible accident is always there. For more than a century, bicycle racers have sought glory, but have often found only misery. There can be only one winner, and even that triumph can be mixed with terrible loss. Fausto Coppi, coached by a blind man, set the World Hour Record in Milan during the war while the city was being shattered by bombs.
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Couldn't handle the narrator. Stories were poor.
- By jason hewitt on 17-08-2018
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Cycling's 50 Triumphs and Tragedies
- The Rise and Fall of Bicycle Racing's Champions
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2015
- Language: English
- Join cycling's most accomplished writer, Les Woodland, as he explores the heroic, sometime triumphant side of cycling....
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Women on the Move
- The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing
- By: Roger Gilles
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women’s mastery over their lives. Spurred by the emergence of the “safety” bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, women’s professional bicycle racing thrived in the United States from 1895 to 1902.
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Women on the Move
- The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-06-2019
- Language: English
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The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers....
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