Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100

by 羅伊·沃雷克, Roy M. Wallack, 比爾·科多夫斯基, et al.

Book Overview

Cycling is one of the most popular and fastest growing activities in the nation--today more than 56 million recreational cyclists bike regularly in the United States. Now leading cycling journalists... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569244510
• ISBN13: 9781569244517
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Cycling Book

I really enjoyed this book. It presented many cycling topics: general fitness, longevity, training, psychological aspects of the sport, and touring. I especially enjoyed the inspirational interviews like the one with a guy who raced bikes in the '20s, represented the USA in the '32 and '36 Olympics, and now in his 90s, he STILL rides 150 miles a week! Great book.

A Must for All Cyclers

This is one the best book I have read about biking, and I actually still read it almost every day, checking out different aspects related to cycling - health issues, nutrition advises, and especially exercises and stretching before and after every ride. The book answers almost all of my questions, and considering the fact that I am a women and over 50, but still very ambitious to get better on the road, I find it so very useful - I could say necessary. The only thing lacking in the book are photos or at least drawings in the chapters on exercises and yoga for cyclers. Maybe it is just me, but only reading the text-descriptions is not enough. Despite that, I would highly recommend the book to all cyclers, regardless of age. I learn enormously from it!

CAN'T PUT IT DOWN

CAN'T PUT IT DOWN I bought this book because I personally connect with its theme of "Ride a century when you turn a century." I am 42 and plan on another 50 or 60 years of hammering, so the longevity info interested me. That info is thorough, well-researched and, in some cases, groundbreaking. But more than that, it is AN INCREDIBLY FUN, READABLE BOOK THAT I CAN'T PUT DOWN. Just leafing randomly through the book, your eye catches on something and you end up reading for an hour without even knowing it. Why? A unique format. Bike for Life is actually TWO BOOKS IN ONE: 1) One of the best bike-training/longevity research books I've seen. Includes good descriptions of expected topics: climbing tips , anti-impotence tips, a strong case for cross-training. Particularly illuminating is some surprising, cutting-edge I hadn't heard of: the link between cycling and osteoporosis; using rapid-contraction weight-lifting to spur Human Growth Hormone production; the 5-to-1 "relationship ratio". Had I known some of the latter five years ago, it might have saved my marriage. Seriously. 2) Next, every chapter in Bike for Life is separated by a huge INTERVIEW WITH A CYCLING CELEBRITY; all are fascinating reads. The one with John Howard, the great US cyclist of the 70s, is riviting, as are those of Johhny G, the founder of Spinning, Mike Sinyard, the president of Specialized, John Sinabaldi, a 90-year-old former olympic rider of the 1930's who rides 30 miles per day, and one unknown, but strangely magnetic, fellow named Rich "The Reverend" White. (At first, I didn't like the idea of one of the authors, Roy Wallack, lumping an obvious friend of his with the stars, but it turned out to be a fascinating read. I want to meet the guy) Big names like Missy Giove, Ned Overend, Jim Ochowitz, Eddy B -- all great interviews that taught me a lot about fitness and riding. They alone are worth the [very reasonable] price of the book. Each interview takes about 45 minutes to read, On top of those, Bike for Life is filled with other human stories, too; many personality profiles of average, extraordinary people infunny, dramatic, instructive stories of success and failure. That includes the two authors themselves, whose in-the-trenches stories of extreme rides they've done over the years actually made me laugh out loud a few times. Both are excellent writers. It was interesting to compare the sensitive, cerebral, vulnerable, weaker-riding Bill Katovsky with the aggressive, in-your-face, go-for-broke anecdotes of lead author Wallack, who supplies some surprisingly sensitive touches himself. I've never written a book review before, but I could go on and on about Bike for Life. In summation: THIS IS A GREAT BOOK.

Surprisingly Great !!

I'm so impressed with Bike for Life that I bought another one. First, I bought one for my dad's birthday - he's 51, rides like he's 21, and always says he plans on living to 101. The longevity information is right up his alley, but this book is so packed with other great info and is so fun to read that I bent-up too many of the pages reading it and had to order a fresh one for him. Then I forced my bike-crazy husband to read the " Rolling Relationships" chapter #12, which was so illuminating and entertaining that it seems like it could be a book all it's own. Thanks to that, we're going to get a tandem. There's more surprises throughout the book. I didn't know about that osteoprorisis problem, but now I'm going to the weight room-my husband, too.. Then the in-depth interviews--I never heard of Missy Giove before this, but now she's my hero. It's like the Bicycling magazine editor said: You simply don't expect to get something interesting in a mere bike book. But it is.