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Live to Ride by Bo Edwards

A bicycle-touring novel, 302 pages, 6"×9" (15×22 cm), softcover, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9801345-0-6. Two university students from Colorado pack their bicycles and camping equipment off to England for a 6-week tour at the invitation of a London cycling friend. The two cyclists admire the opposite sex as much as the scenic British countryside, until they find themselves in the crossfire between rival drug gangs in the Midlands. The opposite sex proves much more complicated when they form a rivalry of their own with a Scottish cyclist near Edinburgh. Their plans change after they meet a mysterious Swiss hitchhiker at a youth hostel in Somerset. A wild hare takes them onto the Continent. Irony awaits them back in London, if they can return in time for their flight home. The protagonists get slapped upside the head by windy dales, the Queen's English, riding on the left, steep moors, spotted dick, fellow travelers, cricket, football and growing up from a European perspective.

“I’m pregnant, Eric. Now you have to marry me!”

Eric gagged on his tea, and his droopy eyes opened wide very suddenly. “How did that happen?”

Who would issue such a stark ultimatum to shy, unassuming cyclotourist Eric Fernandez? And what does his scheming friend Roger Schmidt have to do with it? For Eric and Roger, Live to Ride is no ordinary bicycle tour! From the people they meet to the places they visit, surprises await them at every pub, hostel, dale and roundabout.

“[Bo Edwards] is passionate about touring.” — The Albany (Oregon) Democrat-Herald

“Live to Ride is quite readable…” — The Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain

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The cover of Live to Ride.

The city centre of Thirsk, England, in 2005.

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Mad Dogs and an Englishman by Derek L. Jensen

Non-fiction, 156 pages, 6"×9" (15×22 cm), softcover, 2007, ISBN 141209415-1. A middle-aged Englishman explored the Americas by bicycle in the 1970s and '80s, including the historic Bikecentennial '76 tour from Oregon to Virginia. Author Jensen describes his Bikecentennial experience as it unfolded. The Bikecentennial Trail is now known as the TransAmerica Trail. He undertook a rugged ride over the Andes in 1982 with a Dutch friend he met in Colorado on Bikecentennial. In 1984, he began a solo ride in Vancouver, British Columbia, crossed the Arctic Circle, and finished in Anchorage, Alaska. Click here to see more details or to order.

The following sites along or near the TransAmerica Trail have a copy of MD&E in their library:

· Riverview House in Yorktown, VA

· The Cookie House (a.k.a. Bike House) in Afton, VA

· The Acorn Inn in Nellysford, VA

· Adventure Cycling Association headquarters in Missoula, MT

Both books have been advertised in Adventure Cyclist magazine and Cyclists’ Yellow Pages.

The east end of the Bikecentennial'76 Trail.

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The Arctic Circle in Yukon Territory, Canada.

The Continental Divide in Peru.

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