Cykler og ikke-motoriseret transport: vedligeholdelse for alment interesserede

"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 two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle's saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a "green machine," an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world's fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station"--

In the 1890s, bicycling was a cultural activity for the wealthy elite, with a bicycle costing about twenty weeks of a laborer's pay. And even if you were to somehow acquire one, you were most likely going to land face-first on the gravel roadway. There were strict cultural norms and bicyclists were painted as scofflaws in the media. Kittie Knox, a teenage Black girl, began making headlines in her hometown of Boston, showing up in homemade tailored suits while most participants had expensive, specialized clothing. Knox soon took home a first prize and was bolstered to attend the League of American Wheelmen's national event in Asbury Park, NJ. The only problem, of course, is that Kittie was absolutely not welcome. The League had recently passed the color bar, saying that only white people could join the organization. But Kittie showed up anyway, turned heads, made her mark, and changed bicycling forever. In this excellent, deep-research piece full of cultural analysis, you can see how Knox's actions continue to affect cycling today.

Mit dem Fahrrad über die Alpen, durch das Land oder den Kontinent. Diese Ferntouren einmal im Leben zu fahren, davon träumt so ziemlich jeder Bikepacker."Nichts ist vergleichbar mit der einfachen Freude Rad zu fahren. - John F Kennedy. Und so machen sich jedes Jahr mehr Menschen auf, ihr Land oder andere Länder mit dem Fahrrad zu entdecken. Bikepacking, das ist Unabhängigkeit, Landschaft erleben , sowie Menschen kennenlernen. Bikepacking Experte Stefan Amato stellt die legendären Radtouren vor, von denen jeder Bikepacker träumt: die Trans-Pyrenäen-Tour zwischen Frankreich und Spanien, die Ruta Austral in Patagonien, die Iditarod durch Alaska und viele mehr. Er erläutert Geschichte und Geografie der Routen, gibt nützliche Tipps zu Vorbereitung, Ausrüstung und den jeweiligen Eigenheiten der Routen. Ein Buch sowohl für geübte Tourenfahrer aber auch Ansporn und Motivation für all jene, die dem Zauber des Fahrrades gerade erst erlegen sind.