Historical Dictionary of Cycling

by Bill Mallon and Jeroen Heijmans

The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868. Soon afterward, the need arose for purpose-built cycling tracks because of poor road conditions at the time. Racing on blocked off pieces of street or grass soon evolved into racing on special tracks called velodromes. This development marked the split into what are still the two main forms of cycling competition: road racing and track racing. Initially, track cycling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810871750
• ISBN13: 9780810871755
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"