Pleasure Cycling: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pleasure Cycling, credited to Henry Clyde, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Pleasure Cycling by Henry Clyde. Read in English by TriciaG "In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful information and advice to those who intend joining the army of wheelmen, or who, in their first season on the road, are beginning to appreciate the healthy pleasure which cycling brings. The book [is] especially intended to aid the amateur rider of the safety bicycle in the intelligent use of his wheel. Further, the writer has attempted, perhaps too emphatically as some may think, to commend the merits of bicycling as a means towards innocent enjoyment and healthy living." Written in 1895, one year before Henry Ford invented his first "quadricycle", this book presents an idyllic picture of cycling before the era of cars. (Summary modified from the preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pleasure Cycling
• Author credits: Henry Clyde
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 3:14:23

Catalogue topics

• bicycle
• cycling
• 1896

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface and Poem — 3:10
2. 01 - The Poetry of Motion — 20:26
3. 02 - Choosing a Bicycle — 35:06
4. 03 - How to Ride, Part 1 — 25:14
5. 04 - How to Ride, Part 2 — 23:53
6. 05 - Taking Care of a Bicycle — 23:00
7. 06 - Dress and Equipment — 19:38
8. 07 - Cycling and Health — 27:12
9. 08 - On the Road — 16:44

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