On Yer Bike!

“When it’s alone, it waits and acts like a sleeping animal. But when you saddle up, it suddenly has the power and lust for life that you give it.”

The bicycle has been man’s humble companion for more than 200 years, serving both young and old on their everyday journeys, but also for unusual journeys. But the most important thing is that it can give us a feeling of complete freedom. Perhaps because a person on a bicycle is only one pedal stroke away from taking off.

Where does the fascination and passion for cycling come from? What does it do to our bodies and our feelings, to our journeys through landscapes or cities? How did the idea of the bicycle come about, how has it changed the world and how can it still change it?

Told and illustrated with humour and enthusiasm, this is a book for cycling enthusiasts of all ages.