En Cyclo Pedia: Everything you need to know about cycling, from the essential to the obscure [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Tell, Johan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784724955 ISBN 13: 9781784724955

Verlag: Mitchell Beazley, 2018

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In En Cyclo Pedia Johan Tell - award-winning Swedish writer and cycling obsessive - uncovers the very soul of cycling, exploring and explaining the many and varied stories that form the basis of cycling culture.

Beautifully illustrated, with hundreds of entries ranging from Tour de France stages to illegal Alley Cat races, and cult heroes to cycling slang, Tell provides a personal insight into this complex world that only a cycling junkie can.

From a pilgrimage to the Bianchi factory in Milan to scouring the streets of New York for the origins of the fixie, via the bicycle cafés of Barcelona and the cobblestones of Flanders, En Cyclo Pedia is a complete A to Z guide to the unique, indescribable character of global bike culture.

Entries include:
- Alley Cat Race
- Bianchi
- BMX
- Brooks
- Cafés
- Campagnolo
- Carbon Fibre
- Drag
- Environment
- Films
- Fixie
- Grand Tours
- Hand-built
- Hipster
- Lycra
- Mountains
- Nutrition
- Oudenaarde
- Paris-Roubaix
- Quicksilver
- Rouleur
- Scalatore
- Shaved Legs
- Style
- Tattoos
- Ultracycling
- Velodrome
- XC
- Zedler
...and many more

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Biografía del autor

Johan Tell is a freelance writer and former editor of the travel magazine Vagabond. He has written several award-winning books and has also helped other adventurous travellers to tell their stories. Tell is a lecturer, mainly in the environmental field - and, above all, a cycling enthusiast.

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• Verlag: Mitchell Beazley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1784724955
• ISBN 13: 9781784724955
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224