The Cyclist's Manifesto makes the most powerful case to date for a
simple fact: America can no longer afford to ignore the bicycle as a
tool for serious transportation. Robert Hurst takes off his gloves to
lay out the case in favor of the bicycle as today's superior mode of
transport--and to voice a resounding call to action for people to use
it. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the past to the present
and into the future, the author visits a surprising variety of places
and historical moments. Hurst argues that America's aversion to
bicycling for transportation is a unique historical-cultural absurdity
based largely on false assumptions and bad information. Humorous but
more than a little exasperated, and strikingly nonpartisan, The
Cyclist's Manifesto paints a tantalizing picture of just what the
effects of substantially increased bicycle usage might be--the health
care savings would be astronomical, for example--and the ways that
individuals and governments can go about wresting back control over
their energy destiny.