Hi Stephanie — This isn't a book, just a few pages from an old Rivendell Reader, but worthwhile.
"One way to assemble a bike." http://www.cyclofiend.com/Images/pdf/RR28_bikeassembly.pdf On Monday, November 28, 2022 at 4:22:33 PM UTC-5 ericf3 wrote: > Found it. Hey' it's over 10 years old! > > It's All About the Bike > the Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels > Penn, Rob > <https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Penn%2C%20Rob&searchType=author> > > The bicycle is one of mankind's greatest inventions - the most efficient > self-powered means of transportation ever invented. Robert Penn has ridden > one most days of his adult life. In his late-20s, he pedalled 40,000kms > around the world. He's in the middle of a long love affair with the > bicycle. Yet, like cyclists everywhere, the utilitarian bike he currently > owns doesn't even hint at this devotion. Penn needs a new bike, a bike that > reflects how he feels when he's riding it - like an ordinary man touching > the gods. > > So Penn has designed and built his dream bike. He's got an artisan in > Stoke to hand-build a bespoke frame; he's travelled to San Francisco for > the perfect wheel, from Padua to Provence to find the perfect components - > parts that set the standard in reliability, craftsmanship and beauty. En > route, he tells the stories of the science, history and culture of > bicycles, extracting pertinent and quirky stories - the role of the bicycle > in women's liberation, the marvel of the tangent-spoked wheel, the > quasi-religious admiration for Fausto Coppi in Italy - that explain why we > ride, and why this simple machine remains central to humanity in the 21st > century. > [image: image.png] > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3f920e40-1862-4089-ad18-23a1945e286dn%40googlegroups.com.
