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Cycle Publishing / Van der Plas
Publications
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We publish books on
bikes & biking,
selected other sports, and manufactured
housing.
Our books are available through the book
trade, Internet book outlets, and directly
from us at this web site.
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Our specialty is bicycle
books, ranging from repair manuals to
illustrated bicycle history books.
Other books deal with
other sports, including
baseball, golf, and fitness exercise. |
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Beyond that, we also have
several books on the subject of manufactured
homes.
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Ordering Our Books
Sorry, but as of March
2014 we no longer operate a shopping cart on
this website. We now merely have a link to
the page for the book on Amazon. Of course,
we'd rather sell you the book ourselves,
since Amazon takes a huge cut, so if you
want to get the book from us, send us a note with a check for just the price of the
book (we will not charge you for shipping,
and we will absorb any California sales tax
due). Send to: Cycle Publishing LLC, 1282
7th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122.
Cycle History
Proceedings
In the past, we also hosted
the site for the International Cycling History Conference (yes, there
really is such a thing), for which we publish the annual Proceedings.
Please note that there is now a separate site for the ICCH,
the link for which you will find on our "Links"
page, links\index.html
Cycle Publishing and Van der Plas Publications
are imprints of
Cycle Publishing LLC
1282 7th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122,
USA
Tel: (415) 665-8214
For E-mail contact, please select the
"Contact Us" tab on the left,
and if that does not work (sorry, it often
fails) send to
rvdp@cyclepublishing.com
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New and Recent
Books
The Dancing
Chain: History and Development of the
Derailleur Bicycle
New 5th edition of the classic book by Frank
Berto that covers not just the technical
details of the rich history of
gear-shifting, but in effect the history of
the bicycle in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Now available in large-format paperback with
updated information right up to 2016, this
book has 400 pages with some 2,000
illustrations.
Rebour: The Bicycle
Illustrations of Daniel Rebour
A spectacular collection of high-quality
reproductions of the bicycler illustrations
by the master of technical illustrating,
Daniel Rebour, whose work appeared in
numerous French cycling periodicals, books,
and catalogues. Compiled by Rob van der Plas
from Frank Berto's collection of Rebour's
illustrations, with captions describing each
illustration in some detail.
Simple Biycle
Repair: Fixing Your Bike Made Easy
New 3rd Edition, much expanded and
updated, this is perhaps the only bicycle
repair book most cyclists will need to keep
their bike in top form. Includes advise on
all the newest components for any kind of
bicycle, from road bike to mountain bike and
from single-speed to E-bike (electric-assist
bike). Clearly illustrated with more than
180 color photos and other graphics.
Other recent
publications:
The Birth of
Dirt, NEW 3rd Edition, revised and
updated. Frank Berto's enduring effort to
trace the true history of the "invention" of
the mountain bike in Marin County is again
brought fully up to date with the latest
news on the origins of the bike and the
sport.
Bicycle
Touring Holland, NEW 2nd Edition,
revised and updated. Brought fully up to
date by riding every route in the book and
marking any changes since publication of the
first edition.
Raleigh:
Past and Presence of an Iconic Bicycle Brand
Commemorating a 125-year pedigree of making
bicycles, this book is a fully illustrated,
thorough history of what is probably the
world's best-known bicycle brand. Recounting
the company's ups and downs, it's pioneering
engineering and its missed opportunities,
its ventures into cars and motorcycles, and
its wartime ammunitions production, as well
as its bicycle production. Also included is
a chapter devoted to Raleigh's erstwhile
subsidiary Sturmey-Archer's hub gears and
hub brakes. Visit Tony Hadland’s website
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hadland/
for more information on this project.
We now also distribute
Andrew Ritchie's self-published
Quest for
Speed: A History of Early Bicycle Racing.
The Little Black
Bottle: Choppy Warburton, the Question of
Doping, and the Deaths of His Bicycle Racers
As today's bicycle racing is in the news and
the shadow of doping hangs over some of its
presumed heroes, this book takes a look at
the same issue as it surfaced more than a
century ago. Trainer Choppy Warburton had a
little black bottle that was believed to
have the powers of restoring or breaking the
riders under his charge. In this book Gerry
Moore reveals what is really know about the
man, his little black bottle, and his
riders.
Major Taylor: "The Fastest Bicycle
Rider in the World" NEW 2nd Edition
The updated, expanded, and fully
illustrated new edition of Andrew Ritchie's
biography of Major Taylor, the first black
American sportsman to achieve world fame at
what was at the time the most popular
spectator sport: bicycle track racing. Now
in hardcover format, and fully illustrated
with over 100 duotone photographs.
The
Unknown Tour de France, NEW 3rd Edition,
illustrated hardcover
Newly updated and expanded edition,
illustrated with 150 duotone photographs.
There is more to the Tour de France than
meets the eye, and Les Woodland tells all
about it. Now in a large hardcover format,
printed on art paper to do justice to all
the fascinating photographs.
The
Dancing Chain, NEW 4th Edition
Updated and expanded new edition, with many
new illustrations and additional technical
and historic information. Includes new
contributions by Jan Heine, in addition to
those by Ron Shepherd, Raymond Henry, Walter
Ulreich, Tony Hadland, and Gordon Selby.
The Birth of
Dirt, NEW 3rd Edition
Updated and
expanded edition, with many new
illustrations. This is the full scoop on the
origins of mountain biking.
Other Recent
Titles:
Bicycle Repair
This comprehensive, superbly illustrated large-format repair
manual is the ultimate source of systematic maintenance and
repair instructions. It's fully up-to-date
and covers all types of bicycles―road,
mountain, touring, city, you name it. It's
also the only repair manual on the market to
day that will help you with older bikes as
well as with the latest.
They'll Never
Catch You Now
A novel set in the world of professional
bicycle racing. It's the latest book by
Ralph Hurne, whose earlier bicycle racing
novel The Yellow Jersey was a runaway
success when it first appeared.
Mountain Bike Maintenance
Rob van der Plas' Mountain Bike Maintenance (see
cover image top left) is the most
up-to-date mountain bike maintenance book on
the market today. Check it out. It is
printed in full color on high-quality coated
paper.
Two Winners:
The Unknown
Tour de France was awarded the first
place prize in the category "Image-Driven
Books" by Bookbuilders West, the Western
States book design and publishing association, at its annual
book show, January 2010. Visit
https://www.bookbuilders.org to read more
about the book show and the awards.
The
Six-Day Bicycle Races (see cover
image second from top right) was awarded top honors in
the USA Book News Best Books 2006 contest in
the category "Sports, General." We're as proud
of the award as we are of the book itself.
It's a beautiful book; check it out.
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