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There haven't been any general books about a whole amazing, creative side of bicycling: recumbents and HPV's. Finally, we have one! This book covers the colorful, diverse world of recumbents, including chapters on: History, Racing, Touring, Design, Physics, Home-building and much more. It has received rave reviews and is highly regarded by beginners and experts alike. It doesn't compare brand models, instead it gives pro's and con's and descriptions of all the features and options found on recumbents, and lets the reader decide what combination of options is best for them. The recumbent is the most diversely designed bike type and so deserves an open-ended way to evaluate the huge range of options without bias: this book meets that need. Includes many B&W photos with a 12-page color photo section; black-and-white text; color covers. This is an English edition of a German book. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I have the 3rd German edition, from 1996, so it's obviously a bit out of date by now, but it gives a very nice historical account of the creative effort cyclists have invested over the years in finding ever more sophisticated ways to lie back and put their feet up. The story of the Mochet recumbent of the 1930s (often mentioned elsewhere, but rarely discussed in any kind of detail) is particularly interesting, as is the account of underground recumbent building in communist East Germany (if you wanted small wheels, you had to make your own tyres...).
In the more modern part of the book the development of speed records and competition is discussed in quite some detail, whilst other areas - trikes and velomobiles, for instance - get rather short shrift. The focus is on Germany and the USA, so some quite important developments in other places (e.g. the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark) are only mentioned in passing. However, it is in the nature of things that HPVs are a cottage industry, with hundreds of models from small builders in obscure places appearing and disappearing all the time, and it's very difficult for anyone to keep an overview. ( )