THE NEW SOAP SHOES TRICKTIONARY (Version 2.0) (An excerpt from the famous book "SOAP SHOES - Secret Tips & Tricks") Written by Ryan Jaunzemis (As seen in Soap Shoes' national sales commercials, and Relate Video Productions' famous full-length Soap videos One & Two, and author of the famous book "SOAP SHOES - Secret Tips & Tricks") is a 132 page excerpt from PART III of "The Trictionary" from the book "SOAP SHOES - Secret Tips & Tricks" (The 480 page, full-color deluxe version) THIS FULL-COLOR SOAPING GLOSSARY INCLUDES: All of the various grinds, jumps, stunts, grabs, aerial-moves, obstacles, objects, games, terminology, and more (From back cover) KIND-GRINDS, Bio Cork-Screws, heart-attack KINKS? What in the heck ARE THESE KIDS TALKING ABOUT? Soap shoes ARE special "Grind shoes" that were invented back in the late 90s for rollerbladers and skateboarders alike. Harnessed with the new powers and abilities of these special shoes - Shoes fashioned with concaved plastic screw-in grind plates on the bottoms of them - sk8rz ARE now enabled with the abilities to mimic the movements of their sports, without the use of their normal equipment; meaning that one IS now able to simply lace up one's shoes, and go out skateboarding - WITHOUT A SKATEBOARD Much of The Soaping Community's lingo and terminology Is adapted from various other aggressive-type Street-sports, but what does all this crazy Soaping jargon REALLY mean? If you love Soaps, and have ever had questions like "What the HECK is a FRONTSIDE?" or, "What in the WORLD is a 270 Backside Royale?" or, "What do you mean by Half-cab Topside Soul to Rewind?" or, if you're interested in learning more about things such as "What is a "Roll up?" or, "What is a groove?" or, "What makes a trick become Blindside?" or, "What is a Lu-Kang?" (Etc.), then you've definitely come to the RIGHT PLACE THIS BOOK, "The New Soap Shoes Tricktionary (Version 2.0)" will answer all of your greatest questions. - Grind On Fellas

The fascinating and unknown story of the Tour de France's ever-changing relationship with money and power - and the enigmatic family behind it all.

It started with a cash drop by an English spy in occupied Paris in 1944. Reserved for Resistance groups during the war, the money reached Émilien Amaury, an advertising executive, who was tasked to help France return to a free press once liberated. He soon launched a newspaper empire that - unbeknown to him - would own the rights to run what would become one of the greatest sporting events in history.

Le Tour, once a struggling commercial phenomenon, began to rise in popularity across much of western Europe in the glum years after the Second World War, lifting the mood of the hungry and despondent French. But with the increased interest in the event, exacerbated by the creation of television and the internet, came several cultural threats to national heritage. Multiple attempts to wrest power and profits from the latest generation of the Amaury family - who still own the race and take tens of millions of euros home in dividends - have followed, but not without a fight.

Fast-paced and fastidiously researched, Le Fric illustrates how moments off the bike at the Tour de France are every bit as gripping as the battle for the yellow jersey.

Helmet use can substantially reduce the risks associated with bicycle injuries, as these protective devices can prevent an array of serious facial injuries. A meta-analysis was carried out looking to summarise studies into the helmet use of adolescents and young adults, where the authors found a U-trend between age and helmet use, with the proportion of individuals regularly wearing a helmet declining first and then rising with reference to the progression of age. The increasing trend in young adults has been well-documented in the literature, but few studies have looked into helmet use among adolescents. In this book, produced in collaboration with the Bicycle Safety and Awareness Club in Ontario, Canada, the authors present survey studies conducted in independent schools in North America, looking into bicycle and helmet use of adolescents.

"Mountain Biking Tricks and Techniques" is the definitive guide to riding a mountain bike. Within its pages, you will find everything you need to know from the basics of how to balance on a bike right through to how to back flip one giving aspiring riders the skills they need to be a better biker - whatever type of riding they do. Your guide is Martyn Ashton, a man who's spent nearly 20 years at the top of the UK scene, and the book is beautifully illustrated throughout by photographer Robin Kitchin. Martyn's guide to mountain biking skills takes you from first principles to professional moves in ten chapters, with each trick described in enthusiastic detail and illustrated with images that are both inspirational and educational. This is not a book for showing off: the techniques are the building blocks for all your riding, giving you the skills you need to make yourself a more complete biker.

A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States Not long ago, bicycling in the city was considered a radical statement or a last resort, and few cyclists braved the inhospitable streets of most American cities. Today, however, the urban cyclist represents progress and the urban "renaissance." City leaders now undertake ambitious new bicycle infrastructure plans and bike share schemes to promote the environmental, social, and economic health of the city and its residents. Cyclescapes of the Unequal City contextualizes and critically examines this new wave of bicycling in American cities, exploring how bicycle infrastructure planning has become a key symbol of-and site of conflict over-uneven urban development. John G. Stehlin traces bicycling's rise in popularity as a key policy solution for American cities facing the environmental, economic, and social contradictions of the previous century of sprawl. Using in-depth case studies from San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Detroit, he argues that the mission of bicycle advocacy has converged with, and reshaped, the urban growth machine around a model of livable, environmentally friendly, and innovation-based urban capitalism. While advocates envision a more sustainable city for all, the deployment of bicycle infrastructure within the framework of the neoliberal city in many ways intensifies divisions along lines of race, class, and space. Cyclescapes of the Unequal City speaks to a growing interest in bicycling as an urban economic and environmental strategy, its role in the politics of gentrification, and efforts to build more diverse coalitions of bicycle advocates. Grounding its analysis in both regional political economy and neighborhood-based ethnography, this book ultimately uses the bicycle as a lens to view major shifts in today's American city.

Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells's works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances and social comedies, to utopias, futurological speculations, and letters, Wells's texts brim with bicycles. In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines this mode of transportation as both something that played a significant role in Wells's personal life and as a literary device for creating elaborate characters and exploring complex themes. Withers traces Wells's ambivalent relationship with the bicycle throughout his writing. While Wells celebrated it as a singular and astonishing piece of technology, and continued to do so long after his contemporaries abandoned their enthusiasm for the bicycle, he was not an unwavering promoter of this machine. Wells acknowledged the complex nature of cycling, its contribution to a growing dependence on and fetishization of technology, and its role in humanity's increasing sense of superiority. Moving into the twenty-first century, Withers reflects on how the works of H. G. Wells can serve as a valuable locus for thinking through many of our current issues and problems related to transportation, mobility, and sustainability.