A Great Ride
The American Bicycle tackles a vast historic volumn of information like no other book on the subject....most every high point in the parade of mechanical developement is presented....certainly for anyone w/ the barest of interest, it really is in this book....peppered w/ drawings, posters, old photographs, and book specific color photo prints, it's impossible to read this book and not be amazed at the American developement of this most accessable of freedom machines.....beautiful original examples of the industy's benchmark machines are uniformly presented w/ no distracting backgrounds to cause the eye/mind to stray from the focus. Jay Pridmore and Jim Hurd cover the text w/ lots of facts and yet put the reader back into the context of the times....worth having at hand for the pictures alone...a fine separation of an industry that evolved quite differently in the rest of the industrial world.