Bicycling Science - Hardcover

Whitt, Frank Rowland; Wilson, David Gordon

 
9780262231114: Bicycling Science
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0262231115 ISBN 13: 9780262231114
Verlag: MIT Press, 1982

Inhaltsangabe

The second edition of Bicycling Science includes new information on recent achievements and experiments in human-powered transportation, from the "ultimate human-powered vehicle" (UHPV) in which supine riders can achieve speeds well over 60 mph, to human-powered aircraft, boats, and rail transportation. New chapters cover the history of bicycle and humanpower technology and science, and the speed-power relationships of various modes and vehicles including performance predictions for the UHPV and the "commuter human-powered vehicle." The chapters on braking, steering, friction, air drag, rider cooling, and transmissions and gearing have all been enlarged and updated. James McCullagh, editor of Bicycling Magazine has written a Foreword for this edition which also includes many new illustrations.

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Críticas

"The human being used as an engine may not be the way you look at a bicycle, but that's how nature looks at it. This exceptional book analyzes, compares and judges the measurable aspects of people-power and the bicycle being ridden .... Happily, [the authors) haven't hidden the findings in a mass of jargon. The chapter on bicycle physics will get most readers to a useful level of understanding. The chapter on people-powered devices other than bicycles is fascinating."- J. Baldwin, "The CoEvolution Quarterly"

Reseña del editor

The second edition of "Bicycling Science" includes new information on recent achievements and experiments in human-powered transportation, from the "ultimate human-powered vehicle" (UHPV) in which supine riders can achieve speeds well over 60 mph, to human-powered aircraft, boats, and rail transportation. New chapters cover the history of bicycle and humanpower technology and science, and the speed-power relationships of various modes and vehicles including performance predictions for the UHPV and the "commuter human-powered vehicle." The chapters on braking, steering, friction, air drag, rider cooling, and transmissions and gearing have all been enlarged and updated. James McCullagh, editor of "Bicycling Magazine "has written a Foreword for this edition which also includes many new illustrations.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1982
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262231115
ISBN 13 
9780262231114
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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Verantwortliche Person
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