Cleaning the out box: Hoo, boy, is *this* an old one!
On 10/21/13 12:45 PM, Lyn Bailey wrote:
There are two skills I have which I couldn't learn on my
own from a book. Riding a bicycle and hand spinning on a
spinning wheel.
I did learn bicycling from a book -- _Effective Cycling_ by
John Forester. Though he's the son of C.S. Forester, John
Forester is not a good writer, and most people offer later
works to beginners. (If you want to advance, you do need to
plow through the compendium.) _Street Smarts_ is a
condensed booklet that's very good for an introduction, and
_Cyclecraft_ is the British equivalent of _Effective
Cycling_. There is a _Cyclecraft North American Edition_,
but I've yet to get my hands on a copy.
(And, alas, it's still true that I haven't seen the North
American edition.)
--
Joy Beeson
http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
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