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Minneapolis from the Saddle - A Winter Cycling Journal (Resist #48)
Minneapolis from the Saddle A Winter Cycling Journal - Resist #48 Author:Mat Resist This is a collection of short stories about bicycling in Minneapolis in the winter. It starts off with broken bikes and a failing resolve. At the beginning of the book, Mat is not ready for another brutal Minnesota winter on his bicycle. Somehow he does it anyway, and we join him as the temperature drops and the streets fill with snow and slush.... more » We ride along with him as the temperature drops to 25 degrees below zero, and he’s adding layer after layer to try to keep warm. We watch him leave his hat and gloves at home on an unseasonably warm day that turns out to still be subzero. We join him when he takes a scenic ride along the Mississippi river and when he gets lost on his way to pick up a moving truck. We accompany him on a bicycle for the coldest 3 months of a Minnesota winter and are left wondering, “How does he seem to actually be enjoying this!?”
Nearly all of the illustrations in this book are pictures of his bike he took while riding his bike. So along with the few pictures of bridges and bicycle trails, we get a lot of strange perspectives of a bicycle in motion.« less