Bicycling books?

I recently checked out the book "Bike for Life" by Wallack and Katovsky from the library. I'm only on the third chapter but so far it seems to be well worth it and I think I'll go find a copy to buy. It takes a well rounded approach to cycling with suggested complementary strength training and stretching and advise for riding into healthy into your later years.

I like the approach because I'm more concerned with making cycling part of my healthy approach to life than looking for strict training regimens for specific races.

What I'm wondering is if others have advice for great cycling books and if others here have opinions about this book.

Thanks!

When the cycling bug hit me I went to my closest library and checked out almost all their books on the subject. I have read most of the books published by Rodale who also publishes Bicycling magazine. I have Bike for Life, The Female Cyclist by Gayle Bernhardt, and Andy Pruitt's Complete Medical Guide for Cyclists. I have Bicycling Medicine by Arnie Baker but I like Andy Pruitt's better. I also have The Complete Book of Long-Distance Cycling: Build the Strength, Skills, and Confidence to Ride as Far as You Want by Edmund R. Burke, Ed Pavelka, and Bicycling Magazine. Another book I would recommend is the Art of Urban Cycling. If it's out there chances are I've read it. I've read enough of them to see where a lot of them overlap. I only keep the ones I really like and I actually go back to them to read them again around the new season. Like you I am more interested in books on the subject vs. training. Ask me about any books and I'll let you know if I've read it. :D

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Originally Posted by Spec&TrekGirl

I recently checked out the book "Bike for Life" by Wallack and Katovsky from the library. I'm only on the third chapter but so far it seems to be well worth it and I think I'll go find a copy to buy. It takes a well rounded approach to cycling with suggested complementary strength training and stretching and advise for riding into healthy into your later years.

I like the approach because I'm more concerned with making cycling part of my healthy approach to life than looking for strict training regimens for specific races.

What I'm wondering is if others have advice for great cycling books and if others here have opinions about this book.

Thanks!

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I too have this book. I have enjoyed reading it, and agree on the well rounded approach. It makes for an easy read with some good stories in between the chapters.

For safer riding in traffic situations- read The Art of Urban Cycling.....also re-published later with a new title: The Art of Cycling in the 21st Century:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Cycling-Bi...2357642&sr=1-4

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Originally Posted by F8th637

When the cycling bug hit me I went to my closest library and checked out almost all their books on the subject. I have read most of the books published by Rodale who also publishes Bicycling magazine. I have Bike for Life, The Female Cyclist by Gayle Bernhardt, and Andy Pruitt's Complete Medical Guide for Cyclists. I have Bicycling Medicine by Arnie Baker but I like Andy Pruitt's better.

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We also have Pruitt's book ..actually a gift book to my partner from I...but I did read it..before I wrapped it up. The book that I pored over and found spoke to me, as a female cyclist, when cycling love hit me...nearly 17 yrs. ago, was Susan Weaver's The Woman Cyclist. I believe there is a revised edition.

In terms of Long-Distance Cycling, I personally found the most helpful & inspiring books were:

cycling travelogue books by solo female cyclists which no doubt many TE forum members have read. Books by these authors who have written several:

*Josie Dew
*Dervla Murphy
*Anne Mustoe

I do have quite a collection of many of their bks. However I wish I could find that book about the woman who was a martial arts /karate practitioner and a cyclist travelling in Central Asia...it's lost in my collection somewhere.

Bob Anderson's classic STRETCHING

I really liked Bike For Life, as well as Pruitt's book. The book Strength Training for Cyclists is also very good. I also read most of Selene Yeager's new book The All Women's Guide to Cycling (something like that), while sitting in Barnes and Noble the other day. It seems to condense a lot of training information down, which I found to be very helpful. Now I'm about to start The Training Bible.

If you want to buy Bike for Life, I recall finding it for pretty cheap on Half.com or you can do a Pricegrabber search.