En Cyclo Pedia
Everything you need to know about cycling, from the essential to the obscure
Published on 6. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-78472-495-5 (ISBN)
Description
In En Cyclo Pedia Johan Tell - award-winning Swedish writer and cycling obsessive - uncovers the very soul of cycling, exploring and explaining the many and varied stories that form the basis of cycling culture.
Beautifully illustrated, with hundreds of entries ranging from Tour de France stages to illegal Alley Cat races, and cult heroes to cycling slang, Tell provides a personal insight into this complex world that only a cycling junkie can.
From a pilgrimage to the Bianchi factory in Milan to scouring the streets of New York for the origins of the fixie, via the bicycle cafes of Barcelona and the cobblestones of Flanders, En Cyclo Pedia is a complete A to Z guide to the unique, indescribable character of global bike culture.
Entries include:
- Alley Cat Race
- Bianchi
- BMX
- Brooks
- Cafes
- Campagnolo
- Carbon Fibre
- Drag
- Environment
- Films
- Fixie
- Grand Tours
- Hand-built
- Hipster
- Lycra
- Mountains
- Nutrition
- Oudenaarde
- Paris-Roubaix
- Quicksilver
- Rouleur
- Scalatore
- Shaved Legs
- Style
- Tattoos
- Ultracycling
- Velodrome
- XC
- Zedler
...and many more
Beautifully illustrated, with hundreds of entries ranging from Tour de France stages to illegal Alley Cat races, and cult heroes to cycling slang, Tell provides a personal insight into this complex world that only a cycling junkie can.
From a pilgrimage to the Bianchi factory in Milan to scouring the streets of New York for the origins of the fixie, via the bicycle cafes of Barcelona and the cobblestones of Flanders, En Cyclo Pedia is a complete A to Z guide to the unique, indescribable character of global bike culture.
Entries include:
- Alley Cat Race
- Bianchi
- BMX
- Brooks
- Cafes
- Campagnolo
- Carbon Fibre
- Drag
- Environment
- Films
- Fixie
- Grand Tours
- Hand-built
- Hipster
- Lycra
- Mountains
- Nutrition
- Oudenaarde
- Paris-Roubaix
- Quicksilver
- Rouleur
- Scalatore
- Shaved Legs
- Style
- Tattoos
- Ultracycling
- Velodrome
- XC
- Zedler
...and many more
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Illustrations
c.60 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
561 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78472-495-5 (9781784724955)
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Johan Tell
En Cyclo Pedia
Everything you need to know about cycling, from the essential to the obscure
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09/2018
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Person
Johan Tell is a freelance writer and former editor of the travel magazine Vagabond. He has written several award-winning books and has also helped other adventurous travellers to tell their stories. Tell is a lecturer, mainly in the environmental field - and, above all, a cycling enthusiast.