Cycling Science: How Rider and Machine Work Together

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Hardcover
2012
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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 15 Nov 2012
ISBN 10: 0226924130
ISBN 13: 9780226924137

Media Reviews

Max Glaskin's Cycling Science straddles the space between popular accounts typically found in cycling enthusiast magazines and the more academic treatments of David Gordon Wilson or Edmund Burke. It's a fairly large gap, but Glaskin spans it ably. Approaching its subject from the standpoints of both rider and machine, the book covers all the basics of human performance and how a two-wheeled conveyance converts that into the world's most efficient transportation system. Illustrations are perhaps the book's greatest strength: Prior to the back matter of notes, glossary and index, not a spread goes by without at least one. --David Schoonmaker American Scientist

Author Bio

Max Glaskin is an award-winning science and technology journalist with a special interest in cycling. He has contributed to a vast range of publications, including New Scientist, Reader's Digest, and the Sunday Times.