The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles: Craftsmanship, Elegance, and Function

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The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles: Craftsmanship, Elegance, and Function
By: Rizzoli

Average Rating: 5.0 Total Reviews: 4

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ISBN13: 9780847830947
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The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles is a celebration of the design history and craftsmanship behind this simple but efficient two-wheeled vehicle. Featuring fifty classic models built by hand, this book unveils the bicycleâ€™s technical evolution within a historical context. Beautifully detailed are early-twentieth-century models with multi-gear systems, mid-century machines where war and postwar economy challenged craft and utility, as well as modern and contemporary bicycles. Featured artisans and brands include La Gauloise, Reyhand, Schulz, Barra, Alex Singer, and RenÃ© Herse. With brilliant full-color images of each model and chronological text detailing the craftsmanship that went into producing these elegant machines, this book will appeal to bicycle enthusiasts and to anyone interested in design.

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A perfect gift for bicyclists ........ rating

by: on: 28-Sep 2009

A wonderful collection of hand built bicycles. Oversize book is not too big but large enough to convey the detail, beauty and engineering of these works of art.

LOVED it!! rating

by: on: 27-Sep 2009

I'm still reading and looking at the pictures in this fabulous book..Great buy. I would recommend it to anyone who loves the history of the bicycle.

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by: on: 28-Aug 2009

Great book.Enjoyable text,Very well rendered images.
I'm sure this will provide todays current generation of frame builders with ideas/inspiration.

Fantastic Photography, Beautiful Bikes rating

by: on: 14-Jul 2009

This book opened up another world for me. The photography is amazing.
I do wish that there was more text, but what is there is fine. More biography of the builders would have been nice...regardless this book is a treasure.

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