Biking, Hiking, Running
Biking, Hiking, Running Three Books from the 1970s The 1970s saw a burst of books on energetic personal activities. I was long into bicycling, hiking, and morning runs, so I was enthusiastic over three books published that decade. The bicycle provided my geographic liberation and teen employment in the early 1950s. I bought a bicycle early on arrival for graduate school in Berkeley in 1960, and years later, when on an extended job remote assignment in Southern California, I bought a folding bike which I kept in the car trunk for spontaneous excursions. In 1970 Eugene Sloane's The Complete Book of Bicycling was issued. It served me well when I commuted to work by bike during the energy crunch in the later '70s. I cartooned myself in my '70s cycling. My 1980s folding bike was a Hon, purchased at the Orange County Swap Meet, then a center of entrepreneurial upstarts. It folded compactly and fitted a carrying bag. Ho...
