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Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards
- By: Jody Rosen
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost...
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Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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The Coyote's Bicycle
- The Untold Story of Seven Thousand Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire
- By: Kimball Taylor
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers - coyotes - and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished.
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follow that bike
- By rikki on 27-01-19
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The Coyote's Bicycle
- The Untold Story of Seven Thousand Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 28-11-18
- Language: English
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The Mechanical Horse
- How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
- By: Margaret Guroff
- Narrated by: Margaret Guroff
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience, and relative affordability of the bicycle. The earliest two-wheeler, the draisine, arrived in Philadelphia in 1819 and astonished onlookers with the possibility of propelling themselves "like lightning".
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The Mechanical Horse
- How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
- Narrated by: Margaret Guroff
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-05-17
- Language: English
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Cycling's 50 Triumphs and Tragedies
- The Rise and Fall of Bicycle Racing's Champions
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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When more than 100 men or women go racing down a road, inches away from each other, in all weather, over all kinds of roads, the opportunity for a brilliant win or a terrible accident is always there. For more than a century, bicycle racers have sought glory, but have often found only misery. There can be only one winner, and even that triumph can be mixed with terrible loss. Fausto Coppi, coached by a blind man, set the World Hour Record in Milan during the war while the city was being shattered by bombs.
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Heard some of these before
- By stufie on 07-06-18
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Cycling's 50 Triumphs and Tragedies
- The Rise and Fall of Bicycle Racing's Champions
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-10-15
- Language: English
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The Green Bicycle Mystery
- Who Shot Bella Wright?
- By: Edgar Jepson
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 40 mins
- Unabridged
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'The Green Bicycle Mystery' is Jepson's account of a true unsolved murder case. Bella Wright was found lying dead beside her bicycle on a lonely country lane in Leicestershire. She had been shot through the head. The last person seen in her company was a man on a green bicycle. When months later a green bicycle is dredged from a canal, the police are hot on the track of the mystery man.
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Poor narration and frustrating story
- By Ms. L. A. Dale on 14-01-25
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The Green Bicycle Mystery
- Who Shot Bella Wright?
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 28-03-17
- Language: English
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Tour de France: The Inside Story
- Making the World's Greatest Bicycle Race
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: Oscar Sparrow
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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The Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick for a floundering newspaper. More than 100 years later, the Tour still captivates the world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men looking for some way to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? Les Woodland tells the inside story of the Tour de France through the prism of the men who started it, and those who now run it.
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Good but really only for cyclists.
- By P. Wyeth on 22-10-16
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Tour de France: The Inside Story
- Making the World's Greatest Bicycle Race
- Narrated by: Oscar Sparrow
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 14-07-14
- Language: English
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Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
- By: Jody Rosen
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Amanda Carlin, Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world “Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New...
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Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Amanda Carlin, Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 24-05-22
- Language: English
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Old Wheelways
- Traces of Bicycle History on the Land
- By: Robert L. McCullough
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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In the later part of the 19th century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys - in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths ("wheelways") - building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them.
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Old Wheelways
- Traces of Bicycle History on the Land
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 25-05-17
- Language: English
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Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1
- By: Thomas Stevens
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Join Thomas Stevens on his extraordinary adventure as the first person to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle in the late 19th century. Starting his remarkable journey in April 1884 from San Francisco, Stevens cycled across the United States to Boston, where he boarded a steamer to England. His travels took him through the landscapes of England, France, Central Europe, and Asia Minor, before being halted at the borders of Afghanistan. Undeterred, he made his way to Karachi and crossed the vast expanse of India. After a journey by ship from Calcutta to Hong Kong, Stevens ventured onward to ...
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Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 2
- By: Thomas Stevens
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Join Thomas Stevens on his extraordinary journey as he becomes the first person to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle, riding a large-wheeled Ordinary. Starting in April 1884 from San Francisco, Stevens pedals his way to Boston, hops on a steamer to England, and traverses through England, France, Central Europe, and Asia Minor, only to be halted at the borders of Afghanistan. He makes his way back to Karachi, crossing India before another steamship takes him from Calcutta to Hong Kong. From Shanghai, he sets out for Japan, ultimately concluding his remarkable odyssey after cycling an ...
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Women on the Move
- The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing
- By: Roger Gilles
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women’s mastery over their lives. Spurred by the emergence of the “safety” bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, women’s professional bicycle racing thrived in the United States from 1895 to 1902.
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Women on the Move
- The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-06-19
- Language: English
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