Cycling in Cyberspace
I've included the full table of contents below (page numbers have been removed to avoid confusion) with updated links to all the sites reviewed in the book except for those in Chapter 13 (Regional Resources) and the Appendices. There's just too many sites and too little time and memory available at our humble Web site. Of course, the book also has BBS phone numbers, e-mail address, IRC channels, and a lot of other stuff we couldn't link to from here.
I'd be happy to send URLs if you're looking for something specific (but the links in Chapter 12 will probably give you answers faster). As URLs change for sites reviewed in the book -- as they inevitably will -- I'll update them here. If sites drop off the Internet, I'll remove their links but not their names ... you'll know who the true survivors are in the online cycling world (i.e., those who've maintained a site since 1995).
Please feel free to jump ahead to chapters with links that interest you the most:
Chapter 1. Using a Bulletin Board System
Signing On
What's Available
Navigating the File Area
Reading the Message Area
A Word About Freenets
Chapter 2. Cyclists Online on America Online
Bicycling Magazine Online
BikeNet
Marketplace
Newsstand
Reference Desk
Sports
Travel
Internet Connection
Chapter 3. Introduction to the Internet
Electronic Mail
Mailing Lists
Usenet Newsgroups
Gopher
World Wide Web
File Transfer Protocol
Telnet
Internet Relay Chat
VeloNet
Bicycle@Yukon
Bicycling
Community Page
Cascade
Bicycle Club
Cyber Cyclery
Cycle Expo
Cycling
Great
Outdoors Recreation Pages
Heiner's
Home Page
Jorn's
Cycling Homepage
(Pittsburgh) Bicycling Home Page
rec.bicycles
FAQ (Mike Iglesias' site -- the book has alternative URLs)
Trento
Bike Pages
U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame
VeloLinQ
Arizona Mountain Biking Page
Beetle's Bike Page
Bike
Bits Page
Coghead
Corner
Cool Places
to Ride
Dictionary of Off-Road Bike Slang
Fat Tire Wire
The
Mountain Bike Pages (UK site - now a link to Phat Tyres)
Mountain
Bikes Trials Riding
Mountain
Biking (Stanford site)
MTB
MuDSLuTs
NEMBA (New
England Mountain Bike Association)
New
Zealand Mountain Bike Web
Rob's Mountainbike Page
WOMBATS
(Women's Mountain Biking and Tea Society)
Worldguide
Zia's Home Page
Dictionary of Roadie Slang
The
Fabulous World of Cycling
Fat Tire Fotos
German Bicycle Racing Page
Karen
Kurreck
Major Taylor News & Results Service
Roger
Marquis' Cycling Page
NCCA (National Collegiate Cycling Association)
NCNCA Feed Zone
(Northern California/Nevada Cycling Association ... and much more)
Greg Nichols' Cycling
Page
Palmares
of Professional Cyclists
Professional Teams
race-results@cycling.org
Raz's
Velo-O-rama (YIPES! The URL in the book has a typo ... you
need a period between the "www" and the "csusm"
in the server address. Very, very sorry about that, John ...)
Seamus
Shortall's Irish Cycling Page ... Seamus also recently announced
the presence of his Irish Cycling info on the teletext pages of
Aertal
Team
Internet (Greg Franks' site ... Colin has his address in the
book, too.)
Team
Working Title
USCF
Documents (Les Earnest's FTP site)
World
Media
Major Races (this lists URLs to major road, mountain, and cyclocross races around the world ... and, sigh, another typo: the "B" in NORBA should stand for "Bicycling", not "Bicycleing".)
Bike Current
Bike
Touring ("America at 10 miles per hour")
C.H.U.N.K.
666
IHPVA (International
Human Powered Vehicle Association)
Magpie's
Nest Home (lots of recumbents and other specialty cycles)
Moulton
Bicycle
Mountain Unicycling Index Page
National Bicycle
League (BMX) (this is the updated URL)
New
Jersey Bicycle Motorcross (BMX)
Nomadic Research Labs
Recumbents
and Technomadics
Tandem
Page (tandem@hobbes)
Tandem Specific Info
Tandem
Tour
Unicycling Home
Page
Chapter 8. Social and Safety Issues
Bicycle (commuting
info from Mark Allyn)
Bicycle Commuting (commuting info from CJ Silverio)
Bicycle Federation of
Australia
Bicycle Helmet
Safety Institute
Bicycle Parking
Bike'alog
(bike specifications)
Bike
Lights FAQ
Book of Advice
Critical Mass
Green
Action UK
National Bicycle Greenway
One Less Car
Pedestrian/Bikeways
Committee (commuting & advocacy)
Snell Memorial
Foundation
Spoke
Length Calculators (several URLs in book -- this link goes
to Mike Iglesias' gopher)
Stolen
Bike Registry
Tech
Tips (you can get to the Tech Tips gopher through Steve King's
Web site, which has lots of other nice offerings)
Winter
Cycling
WHO
Helmet Initiative
Chapter 9. Magazines and Media
220 (triathlete magazine)
Balance Magazine
Big Ring Magazine
Bike Culture Quarterly
Crank
Cyber Cyclist
Cycling Plus
Cycling Science
Dirt Rag
ESPNet
GearHead Cyberzine
(new name! same great content)
Inside Triathlon Online
La Bicicletta/Bici da Montagna
Mountain Biking UK
MTB Pro
MBElectro
Outside
Online
Oz
on Dirt
SINGLE
TRACK The Mountain Bike Magazine
Tandem Magazine
t@p
online (a nice review
here, too)
Triathlete
Online
VeloNews
Winning Magazine
Chapter 10. Nutrition, Sports Medicine, and Training
Ask
the Coach / Training Manual for Veteran Riders
The Athlete's
Diary (training log software)
Chiropractic
Endurance Training Journal
Exercise
Log (Hypercard training log)
The Internet's
Fitness Resource
IFIC
(International Food Information Council)
The
Medical Tent (now called SportsMedWeb)
Neuromuscular
Physiology
Nutrition
Guide
The Nutrition Pages
Pro Trainer
Sports
and Exercise Psychology
Stretching FAQ
Training-Nutrition Home Page
Vegetarian
Pages
Yahoo
Nutrition Resources
Zero Fat
Chapter 11. Triathlon and Duathlon
Amalgamated
Calendar
Dead Runners Society Triathlete's Home Page
MultiSport Online
Osmar's
Sports Page
PB's Triathlon Home
Page
RST Magazine
Running
and Triathlon
Triathlete's Web
Triathlon!
Triathlon
& Cycling Home Page
Chapter 12. Catalogs, Indices, and Search Engines
Bicycling
Information
The Big Ring
BIKINDEX
The Cycle Center: The Big Index
Cycling the InfoBahn (only a link to Rivendale
bikes now)
Cycling
Related Pages
Galaxy
Lycos
Steve C's Bicycling Page (The Cyberrider Cycling
WWW Site)
Virtual Breakaway
(formerly Cycling the Net)
Virtual Library
WebCrawler
Whole Internet Catalog
WWW Bicycle
Lane
WWW Cycling Links
Yahoo!
Chapter 13. Regional Resources
United States
Canada
Mexico
Europe/Northern Asia
Pacific/Southeast Asia
Africa
Integrated Earth Information Server
University of Illinois Weather Machine
WeatherNet
Chapter 14. Rules of the Road
Meeting Other Cyclists
Online Body Language
Joining the Conversation
Speaking Up
Potholes
Common Abbreviations
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Organizations Online
Appendix B: Bulletin Board Systems
Appendix C: Usenet Newsgroups
Appendix D: Mailing Lists
Appendix E: Companies Online
Appendix
F: Late-Breaking Sites:
American
Center for Bicycle Registration
Athlete's Heart Line
BMX
On-Line
Fixed
Gear Fever
Go Ride!
Mountain
Biker Info Pages
Mountain Biking FAQ
Outdoor Resources Online: Mountain Biking
Pedalling
Preacher's Cycle Training
Your Biking Accident
Plus I'm keeping track of new sites as they come online (organized according to the month they were announced on rec.bicycles.*).
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