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    I Love My Bike
    I Love My Bike
    I Love My Bike
    Ebook141 pages14 minutes

    I Love My Bike

    By Matthew Finkle and Brittain Sullivan

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    Cycling is about joy. Sure, it takes willpower, strength, and grit, but at its core, being on a bike is all about rejoicing in the greatest transportational invention in history. I Love My Bike is a photographic celebration of the grand kinship of bicycles, a bond shared by millions of people around the world. This distinctive and affordable coffee table book for cyclists collects the best of the stories, photographs, and bicycles encountered by the authors during numerous cross-country photo-journaling trips. Readers will meet longtime messengers and hardcore roadies, casual commuters and weekend day-trippers, tattoo artists and skateboarders, bike builders and first-time owners—all of them in love with their two-wheeled contraptions. With gorgeous full-color photos on every spread, I Love My Bike delivers the trifecta of awesome for any cyclist: cool people, cool photos, and really, really cool bikes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateMay 27, 2011
    ISBN9781452105642
    I Love My Bike
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    Matthew Finkle

    Matt Finkle is a photographer and cycling enthusiast. He lives and rides in Boston, Massachusetts.

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      Grungey photo collection, seemingly inspired by the once-humble (now almost fetishized) bicycle. And those shown are spotless: no mudguards (or mud), light frames that you can flip over your shoulder with one finger. Actually, the people featured, with their terrible tattoos and studied poses, are mostly more interesting than their bikes. The American townscapes too are evocative. The text is a bit soupy, but fortunately there’s not much of it, the wacky typefaces trying to compensate a little for the lack of content. “I Love My Bike” maybe; this collection has a bit more “I love myself” ...

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    I Love My Bike - Matthew Finkle

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    Matt and I love everything about bicycles. It is no small coincidence that we met on a bike ride with mutual friends one of the few clear summer nights in Boston during a month when it poured down rain twenty-two of thirty days. From that night on, our sense of adventure took us anywhere we could imagine on our bikes. We would wake up very early every morning before work to meet up with a group of friends and ride to get coffee and breakfast somewhere we had never been, and punctuated our days with late-night rides to Castle Island or Walden Pond or through the desolate streets of downtown Boston in the wee hours of the morning. It was one of the most memorable summers of our lives, filled end to end with journeys through beautiful landscapes and with good company.

    We didn’t want it to end, but the days started to get shorter, the temperature became cooler, and our familiar bike routes began to look a little less green. For Matt and me, our shared excitement for all things cycling was only surpassed by the great friends that we met along the way. It was then that we thought to combine our skills and love of bicycles, and we set out to travel the country photographing people and their bikes.

    This book is not about a singular style of bike or type of cycling but rather about all of us in a grand kinship of bicycles. We wanted to

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