Velo--2nd Gear: Bicycle Culture and Style Hardcover – January 24, 2013

If you are looking for nice bicycles photos and beyond, this is it. The book ia about the culture of bike (mostly urban) so you would find many interest thing including some gadgets, tattoos and weird frames.

Got this for my boyfriend, who is a cycling enthusiast. he loved it and learned a lot from this book. check out the instagram: @cyclethis if you like this book!

Like the book it follows, this is a book of photographs with only a couple of pages of text. Many sequels do not carry the force of the original, but this one does. This expands the original volume's original scope of surveying the developing revolution in transportation as a grass-roots movement by including new additional projects and manufacturers that one can't but help find intriguing. It is less playful in covering bike culture and contains more studio manufacturers and fewer artists than the original. This is a hard-back. It is physically larger, being 9.5" x 11.25"; a 20% increase in size over the book it follows and has 15 more pages than--  Velo: Bicycle Culture and Design . It lists 135 manufactures in the index; 13 more than the book it follows. All of the makers show-cased are new; none of them are in the earlier book. On the down-side, neither book has a table of contents, probably because the material in this book is too new to fall into distinct groups. Yet it does have chapters: Preface, Boutique Shops, Connisseurs, Urban Bikes, Touring Bikes & Speed Bikes. Both books have an index of websites. It has very little text; the majority of text appears as captions. Many photographs, however, are outstanding and let you have experience without words. It is a photojournalist's diary of a World-wide movement not yet in sharp focus.

If you live bicycles you will love this. Beautiful pictures beautiful bikes.

I have to confess that I am completely and utterly addicted to bikes. Being a woman, style takes priority on my list. This book is something special. I love flicking through it and checking out individual bikes, personal styles and some awesome retro bike cafes.

An awesome book for any bicycle enthusiast or Urban Hipster. It proudly sits on a coffee table for our guests to flick through and enjoy. Highly recommended

V Cool

Brilliant book, really got the bike culture in there, very wide, from improbable cycles to the place visited by bikers.