On Your Bicycle: An Illustrated History of Cycling

By James McGurn

Book Overview

This book traces how the upper-class passion of the early 1800s for the Hobby-Horse, the fastest vehicle of its day, gave way to the amateur mechanics' more complicated Velocipede or Bone-Shaker of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816017484
• ISBN13: 9780816017485
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good bike history!

Another excellent book on the history of the bicycle! This books focusses a bit more on the English side of the cycling craze, and gives a good bit more information about the age of velocipedes and draisiennes than the other bike history books I've read.