Cycling Science: How rider and machine work together - Softcover

Glaskin, Max

 
9781782406433: Cycling Science: How rider and machine work together
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1782406433 ISBN 13: 9781782406433
Verlag: Ivy Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Investigating the scientific wonders that keep the cyclist in the saddle and explaining how the bike and rider work together, this fascinating book is the perfect way to analyse your own kit and technique by showing you the techniques of the professionals. Each chapter investigates a different area of physics or technology and is organised around a series of questions; What is the frame design? How have bicycle wheels evolved? What muscle groups does cycling exploit? How much power does a professional cyclist generate? Each question is investigated using explanatory infographics and illustrations to clarify the answers. Dip into the book for answers to specific questions or read it right through for a complete overview of how machine and rider work together. At its heart, the simple process of getting about on two wheels contains a wealth of fascinating science.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Max Glaskin is an award-winning freelance science, engineering, and technology journalist with a special interest in cycling. He has contributed to a vast range of publications from MIT's Technology Review, Biophotonics International, The Engineer and New Scientist, through to Reader's Digest, Discovery Channel Magazine and every serious national UK newspaper. Max has cycled over the Greater Himalaya, co-founded the UK's national mountain bike organisation, performed for the Queen with the Bicycle Ballet and is one of the first 20 inductees to the Mountain Biking UK Hall of Fame. He has also co-presented a BBC TV education series on the technologies of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Max has twice been nominated for the BT Technology Journalist of the Year - an unusual honour for a freelance - and received the Association for Geographic Information's Journalist of the Year award in 2000 for articles about satellite navigation technology published in the Sunday Times and Engineering magazine.

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Investigating the scientific wonders that keep the cyclist in the saddle and explaining how the bike and rider work together, this fascinating book is the perfect way to analyse your own kit and technique by showing you the techniques of the professionals. Each chapter investigates a different area of physics or technology and is organised around a series of questions; What is the frame design? How have bicycle wheels evolved? What muscle groups does cycling exploit? How much power does a professional cyclist generate? Each question is investigated using explanatory infographics and illustrations to clarify the answers. Dip into the book for answers to specific questions or read it right through for a complete overview of how machine and rider work together. At its heart, the simple process of getting about on two wheels contains a wealth of fascinating science.

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Verlag
Ivy Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1782406433
ISBN 13 
9781782406433
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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