Average Joe Cyclist Book Reviews Archives • Average Joe Cyclist https://averagejoecyclist.com/category/cycling-reviews/average-joe-cyclist-book-reviews/ A Blog for Average People who LOVE to ride bikes! Mon, 20 May 2024 23:25:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 15693361 Review of Joe Friel’s Cyclist’s Training Bible https://averagejoecyclist.com/review-joe-friel-cyclists-training-bible/ Mon, 20 May 2024 12:08:19 +0000 https://averagejoecyclist.com/?p=39978 Book review. Joe Friel's Cyclist's Training BibleThis review of Joe Friel's Cyclist’s Training Bible shows that the book is not just for Serious Athletes. It's also for the Average Cyclist who wants to go from Average Cyclist to Serious Cyclist – or even Great Cyclist. And it’s also for the cyclist of average fitness who has the dedication to follow a stringent, year-round, periodized program of training and become super fit. If any of these are you – read this book review of the fifth, updated edition of Joe Friel's Cyclist's Training Bible.

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]]> 39978 Interview with Cyclist Reza Pakravan, Author of Kapp to Cape: Never Look Back: Race to the End of the Earth https://averagejoecyclist.com/interview-with-cyclist-reza-pakravan-2/ Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:46:56 +0000 https://averagejoecyclist.com/?p=26919 Your cycling adventure isn’t just about the physical journey but also a chance to immerse yourself in the local cultureAn interview with Reza Pakravan, author of Kapp to Cape: Never Look Back: Race to the End of the Earth. This book is a thrilling and inspiring account of two men achieving an almost incredible bike ride.

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]]> 26919 A Conversation with Peter Walker, Author of How Cycling Can Save the World https://averagejoecyclist.com/interview-with-peter-walker-how-cycling-can-save-the-world/ https://averagejoecyclist.com/interview-with-peter-walker-how-cycling-can-save-the-world/#comments Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:08:02 +0000 https://averagejoecyclist.com/?p=22213 how cycling can save the world cover plus peter walker author 2A Conversation with Peter Walker, author of an important, brand new book: How Cycling Can Save the World. In this book, Walker shows the close relationship between infrastructure and the way people get about. Therefore, to create mass cycling you need to create a conducive built environment. Walker discusses bike helmets and high visibility clothing; the misuse of the word accident; roadside intimidation; cycling activism; older people and cycling; business objections to cycling; bike share programs; and the role played by La Monde à Bicyclette and Vélo Quebec in the transformation of Montreal.

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]]> https://averagejoecyclist.com/interview-with-peter-walker-how-cycling-can-save-the-world/feed/ 1 22213 Build it and They Will Come: Key Principles for Building a Cyclist-Friendly Community https://averagejoecyclist.com/key-principles-building-cyclist-friendly-community/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:08:42 +0000 https://averagejoecyclist.com/?p=22176 Build it and They Will Come: Key Principles for Building a Cyclist-Friendly CommunityExcerpt from an important, brand new book: How Cycling Can Save the World by Peter Walker. In this book, Walker shows the close relationship between infrastructure and the way people get about. Therefore, to create mass cycling you need to create a conducive built environment. The way to do this is in fact already well known – only the political will is lacking. So what’s the secret? Basically, bikes must be kept separate from motor traffic on busy roads, and the separation must be physical. “A bicycle way that is not safe for an eight-year-old is not a bicycle way.”

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]]> 22176 Don’t Forget Me: Ghost Bikes – A Photographic Memorial by Genea Barnes https://averagejoecyclist.com/dont-forget-me-ghost-bikes/ Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:14:31 +0000 https://averagejoecyclist.com/?p=15701 Some of the most haunting images in Don't Forget Me: Ghost Bikes are of ghostly children next to ghost bikes.This is a review of an important and memorable book by a remarkable photographer - Don’t Forget Me: Ghost Bikes – A Photographic Memorial by Genea Barnes. Moved by the sight of ghost bikes all over North America, Genea Barnes went on a photographic odyssey to record and document ghost bikes.

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