Bike Book
Subtitle: The Care and Feeding of Your Two Wheels (not listed in first edition)
Publisher: Scholastic Book Services, A Division of Scholastic Magazines, Inc.
Published: June 1979
Place of publication: 50 West 44th Street, New York NY 10036 USA
Language: eng
Format: Wire-Bound, Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780590057301
Subjects: Bicycle purchse, repair, Maintenance
First sentence: Look, we know how you're going to read this chapter.
Description: A detailed and somewhat lighthearted tutorial of purchasing and using a bicycle from the viewpoint of year 1979 authors.
Notes: My wife found this artifact and I'm pleased, intrigued, and at times amused and astounded.  Much of this is still relevant today! (It's a bike, what can I say?)
"Much more intriguing ... are the ones not yet built, the bikes of the future.  If some scientists are right, the kinds of bikes people will be riding in the 21st century (!) won't be made of metal but of some super tough plastic. They will have no chain but will be riven by a small internal drive shaft the way most cars and some motorcycles are driven today. They will weigh half as much as bikes do today and will never get flat tires because each tire will have a special chemical inside that automatically seals up any puncture. You'll also  be able to fold them up and carry them around in a bag no bigger than a medium-sized rucksack."
When I see the collapsible bikes of tiday and then read this... "prediction" I can't help but wonder how much insight the authors had.  At any rate, it seems any edition or incarnation of this book is well worth a read since, despite the predictions, much of it still holds relevant today.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: 10 Terrific Tip s For Buying  a 10-Speed
pagenum: 1