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Effective Cycling is an essential handbook for cyclists frombeginner to expert, whether daily commuters or weekend pleasure trippers. This thoroughly updatedseventh edition offers cyclists the information they need for riding a bicycle under all conditions:on congested city streets or winding mountain roads, day or night, rain or shine. It describes thesheer physical joy of cycling and provides the nuts-and-bolts details of how to choose a bicycle,maintain it, and use it in the most efficient manner. Effective Cycling coversthe bicycle itself, repairs and maintenance, basic and advanced cycling skills, and how traffic isorganized. It describes cycling with friends, bicycle tours, increasing physical endurance, racing,and even finding a cyclist as marriage partner. Throughout, author John Forester emphasizes thatcyclists should consider themselves drivers of vehicles in traffic. That means obeying the rules ofthe road, because when all drivers obey the same rules, they don't have collisions. Foresterexplains why cyclists should not be afraid to cycle in traffic, and he urges them to resist beingshunted off into government-sponsored bike paths as if they were incompetent children. Cyclists farebest, he says, when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles. EffectiveCycling will help owners of bicycles dusty from disuse become active cyclists and veterancyclists improve their techniques and achieve their cycling goals. Each section moves from basic toadvanced topics; readers are encouraged get on a bicycle and practice each activity after readingabout it.
作者簡介
John Forester is a bicycle transportation engineer and the author of Bicycle Transportation: A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers (MIT Press). An experienced cyclist, cycling advocate, and onetime racer, he lives in Lemon Grove, California
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