DAVID HERLIHY - With Tale Of THE LOST CYCLIST

David Herlihy presents the true story of THE LOST CYCLIST: THE EPIC TALE OF AN AMERICAN ADVENTURER AND HIS MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. In 1892, Frank Lenz set off on a 20,000 mile world tour on the forerunner of the modern bike.  He never completed the trip.  The program is co-sponsored by our neighbor, All Star Bike Shop. 

The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance (Hardcover)

By David Herlihy

$26.00

ISBN-13: 9780547195575
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 6/2010

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In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling around the world. He finally got his chance by recasting himself as a champion of the downsized “safety-bicycle” with inflatable tires, the forerunner of the modern road bike that was about to become wildly popular. In the spring of 1892 he quit his accounting job and gamely set out west to cover twenty thousand miles over three continents as a correspondent for Outing magazine. Two years later, after having survived countless near disasters and unimaginable hardships, he approached Europe for the final leg.  He never made it.

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Bicycle: The History (Paperback)

By David V. Herlihy

$30.00

ISBN-13: 9780300120479
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Published: Yale University Press, 8/2006

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This lively and lavishly illustrated book tells the extraordinary history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. Recounting a story replete with disputed patents, brilliant inventions, and missed opportunities, David Herlihy shows us why the bicycle captured the public’s imagination and the myriad ways it has reshaped our world.

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