Product Description
The Competition Bicycle will enthuse cyclists and pattern lovers alike. The evocative, detail-rich photographs arrangement a story of a bicycle, from racing high-wheelers to complicated racing bikes with carbon-fiber front wheels. Exceptional domestic machines ridden by good champions illustrate milestones in a mechanics and craftsmanship of bicycle design.
This volume also facilities iconic bicycles that played an critical purpose in a story of a sport, from a bicycle that sent Eddy Merckx over a finish line in his final universe championship win, to those of tandem teams who tackled a hour record, motor-paced lane racers that exceeded 80 mph on a wooden boards, to California’s mountain-bike pioneers.
Historic images element a overwhelming new photography that illustrates any appurtenance in artistic fact while celebrating a expansion of a sport, object, and machine. The Competition Bicycle is certain to be appreciated by all who conclude pretentious masterpieces of selected and contemporary design.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2283 in Books
- Published on: 2012-02-21
- Released on: 2012-02-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 12.20" h x .86" w x 9.80" l, 3.12 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 168 pages
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About a Author
Jan Heine is an zealous cyclist and a editor of Bicycle Quarterly, a repository clinging to bicycle story and classical models. Jean-Pierre Pradères is a freelance photographer whose award-winning work has been featured in countless magazines and books, including The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles and The Art of a Racing Motorcycle.
By Jan Heine
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Beautiful Picture Book, Just Wish for More
By Doctor Moss
This is a design book story of racing bicycles, starting with high circle lane racers from a late 1800s by to complicated hour record lane bikes. In between are all sorts of racing bikes, including road, track, tandem, and even a "newspaper bearer racing" bike. The authors did their best to find a tangible bikes ridden by good cyclists like Fausto Coppi, Gino Bartali, Eddy Merckx, Greg Lemond, Sean Kelly, and others. The photographs are beautiful, customarily focusing in on innovative or only plain weird takes on derailleurs, brakes, chainrings, cranks, etc.
I got this book on a Tuesday, let it lay until a weekend, and afterwards couldn't put it down. Usually, with design books, we flattering most omit a text, though we got bending on a content here, looking for explanations of how this or that worked, because it was designed as it was, and so on. If anything, I'd favourite to have seen some-more of that. The 75 year anniversary Campagnolo design book did a small improved pursuit of that, though of march they had a opposite pursuit -- celebrating and explaining all a Campagnolo innovations.
There are 34 bikes in all. Here are some highlights:
- Frank Bartell's Willy Appelhans Six-Day from 1935
- Rene Vietto's Barralumin aluminum framed Tour de France bike from 1948
- Bruce Waddell's Cinelli Supercorsa from 1965
- Merckx's De Rosa (branded Eddy Merckx) from 1974
- Francesco Moser's weird hour record bike from 1984
- Andy Hampsten's Landshark (branded Huffy) from 1988
In a behind of a book are geometries and measure for any of a bikes.
There's zero from Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain, Graham Obree, or Lance Armstrong. The newest bike in a book is Tony Rominger's 1994 hour record bike, so Armstrong might only be deliberate too recent.
All in all, a pleasing book. If anything, we only wanted it to be bigger and some-more complete.
