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Cyclepedia: A Tour of Iconic Bicycle Designs by Michael Embacher
51.95 NZD
Category: Cycling
An homage to the beauty of two wheels, Cyclepedia is a celebration of the best bicycles designed over the past 90 years. Among this unique selection of exemplary bicycles are classic racing bikes that been in such events as the Tour de France, high-tech machines that use the latest in material science a ...Show more
Born To Thunder : Champions of New Zealand cycling by D. J. (Desmond Joseph) Williams
29.99 NZD
Category: Cycling
Born To Thunder profiles New Zealand's Olympic medallists Gary Anderson and Sarah Ulmer, earlier heroes like Nick Carter and Warwick Dalton, and many other giants of the road and track over the past 60 years.
Electric Bicycles: A Guide to Design and Use by William C. Morchin
77.99 NZD
Category: Cycling
Among others, Build a Battery-Powered Electric Bicycle serves the amateur craftsman who chooses to build their own. From how to choose the components, to how to put them together for a finished home built bicycle conversion, the authors give commentary and specific data for future modifications to impro ...Show more
Bike Repair and Maintenance for Dummies by Dennis Bailey
29.99 NZD
48.00 (37% off)
Category: Cycling | Series: For Dummies
By coupling step-by-step instructions and detailed photos and illustrations, "Bike Repair & Maintenance For Dummies" gives readers the information they need to keep their bikes in working order, often without taking it to the shop.
How I Won the Yellow Jumper : Dispatches from the Tour De France by Ned Boulting
37.99 NZD
Category: Cycling
'Paris, 4 July 2003: My first Tour de France. I had never seen a bike race. I had only vaguely heard of Lance Armstrong. I had no idea what I was doing there. Yet, that day I was broadcasting live on television. I fumbled my way through a few platitudes, before summing up with the words, '...Dave Millar ...Show more
Cyclopedia: It's All About the Bike by William Fotheringham
49.99 NZD
Category: Cycling
The world of cycling is a veritable treasure trove ready to be plundered and in "Cyclopedia," renowned two-wheeled aficionado, William Fotheringham, delves deep to unearth some 24-carat bike booty. This essential book is a miscellany of facts, figures, interesting snippets and quirky characters from the ...Show more
Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour De France by Richard Moore
39.99 NZD
Category: Cycling
The Tour de France is renowned for its chaos and drama. But no other Tour has quite compared to what played out in 1986. That year witnessed a show-stopping rivalry that had spectators across the world agog. Greg LeMond , a fresh-faced and mercurial youngster, dubbed 'L'Americain', was a naive Tour newb ...Show more
Boy Racer by Mark Cavendish
29.99 NZD
Category: Cycling
"Boy Racer" steps behind the scenes of the Tour de France. It unmasks the exotic, contradictory, hysterical and brutal world of professional cycling from the compellingly candid viewpoint of someone right in the thick of it. Written off as 'fat' and 'useless' in his youth, Mark Cavendish is now cycling' ...Show more
A Race for Madmen: A History of the Tour de France by Chris Sidwells
26.99 NZD
Category: Cycling
No sporting event has had its past and present, its highs and lows so intricately entwined with those of a country like the Tour has with France. The Tour de France is the biggest annual sporting event in the world, and at the same time it transcends sport. The Tour de France comes to the people. It pas ...Show more
Dreams & Demons by Jonathan Kennett
19.99 NZD
Category: Cycling | Series: New Zealand Cycling Legends
Tino Tabak was one of our brightest sporting stars when he set out to prove himself in that toughest of arenas, European road cycling. As Tabak carved out the best race record of any Kiwi in Europe, the offers and opportunities swiftly came. But so did temptation ...This tell-all account lifts the lid o ...Show more
Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi by William Fotheringham
29.99 NZD
Category: Cycling
Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo - champion of champions. The greatest cyclist of the immediate post-war years, he was the first man to win cycling's great double, the Tour de France and Tour of Italy in the same year - and he d ...Show more