Easy Rider: A Kiwi's Guide to Cycling
Author(s): Jon Bridges
More and more Kiwis are keen to take up cycling, but don't know how to start. Popular media personality Jon Bridges wants to take biking to the masses – and have a good dose of fun along the way. Easy Rider outlines the many joys of riding a bike in New Zealand, and provides a complete beginners' guide – from riding for fun, to commuting, riding for fitness, mountain biking and even racing. We learn about the reasons for, the reasons against (there aren't any), the basics of buying a bike and getting started, riding in New Zealand traffic, training and racing, safety and etiquette, maintenance, gizmos, gadgets, Lycra – and so much more. Told with Jon's amiable sense of comedy, boundless energy and passion for the subject, and accompanied by illustrations and photographs throughout, Easy Rider is your one-stop bike shop. Two-wheeled heaven is just one enjoyable read away. (This book, that is.)
Product Information
Jon Bridges has two lives. In one, he is a well-known TV presenter/producer, comedian, radio personality, commentator and author: he has appeared on Ice TV, hosted the Channel Z breakfast show, been a columnist for the New Zealand Listener and currently produces the award-winning TV3 comedy programme 7 Days, among other questionable media achievements. In his other life, Jon is known as 'the guy who's always riding a bike'. This started in 1973 with a maroon Raleigh Sport, continued with a job in a bike shop that paid his way through high school, took him overseas on a 5500-kilometre bike odyssey around Europe, and even saw him crowned the 2009 Counties Manukau Cycling Club winter series C grade road-cycling champion (a highly coveted prize indeed). Jon lives in Auckland with the two loves of his life: his wife Gemma and Avanti Quantum Team road bike
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books
- : Penguin Books
- : 01 October 2012
- : 215x168mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jon Bridges
- : Paperback
- : Paperback
- : 796.6
- : 796.6
- : very good
- : very good
- : 203
- : 203
- : Colour and Black and White
- : Colour and Black and White