Cycle Publishing / Van der Plas Publications

In the past, we also hosted the site for the International Cycling History Conference (yes, there really is such a thing), for which we publish the annual Proceedings. Please note that there is now a separate site for the ICCH, the link for which you will find on our "Links" page, links\index.html

Van der Plas Publications / Cycle Publishing
1282 7^th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
USA

Tel: (415) 665-8214
Fax: (415) 753-8572
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What's New?

Good News

Our title The Unknown Tour de France was awarded the first place prize in the category "Image-Driven Books" by Bookbuilders West, the Western States book design and publishing association, at its annual book show, January 2010. Visit http://www.bookbuilders.org to read more about the book show and the awards.

New and Recent Books:

Now available;
Major Taylor: "The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World" NEW 2nd Edition
The updated, expanded, and fully illustrated new edition of Andrew Ritchie's biography of Major Taylor, the first black American sportsman to achieve world fame at what was at the time the most popular spectator sport: bicycle track racing. Now in hardcover format, and fully illustrated with over 100 duotone photographs.

The Unknown Tour de France, NEW 3rd Edition
Newly updated and expanded edition, illustrated with 150 duotone photographs. There is more to the Tour de France than meets the eye, and Les Woodland tells all about it. Now in a large hardcover format, printed on art paper to do justice to all the fascinating photographs.

Baseball's Hitting Secrets, NEW 2nd Edition
Newly expanded and updated edition. This edition is also recommended for girls' fast pitch softball as much as it is for baseball.

The Dancing Chain, NEW 3rd Edition
Updated and expanded new edition, with many new illustrations and additional technical and historic information. Includes new contributions by Jan Heine, in addition to those by Ron Shepherd, Raymond Henry, Walter Ulreich, Tony Hadland, and Gordon Selby.

The Birth of Dirt, NEW 2nd Edition
Updated and expanded edition, with many new illustrations, now reproduced in color and duotone. This is the full scoop on the origins of mountain biking.

Buying a Manufactured Home, NEW 3rd Edition
Updated and expanded edition of this manufactured housing classic. Now with additional information on upgrading the manufactured home.

Other Recent Titles:
Bicycle Repair
This comprehensive, superbly illustrated large-format repair manual is the ultimate source of systematic maintenance and repair instructions. It's fully up-to-date and covers all types of bicycles—road, mountain, touring, city, you name it. It's also the only repair manual on the market to day that will help you with older bikes as well as with the latest.

They'll Never Catch You Now
A novel set in the world of professional bicycle racing. It's the latest book by Ralph Hurne, whose earlier bicycle racing novel The Yellow Jersey was a runaway success when it first appeared.

Mountain Bike Maintenance
Rob van der Plas' Mountain Bike Maintenance (see cover image top left) is the most up-to-date mountain bike maintenance book on the market today. Check it out. It is printed in full color on high-quality coated paper.

Another recent book, published October 2006, is Ascent: The mountains of the Tour de France, a beautifully produced large-format hardcover book with many great historic photos reproduced in duotone.

We also recently released the latest in our series of Proceedings of the International Cycling History Conference (No. 18).

Overseas Orders:

Overseas postage costs have increased dramatically this year. The US Postal Service now charges us US$12 to ship one paperback book and $37.50 for a single hardcover book. However, for $42.50 we can ship up to 5 copies of most hardcover books (as long as they fit in a standard Priority Mail carton; for Dancing Chain that's only 3 copies). We have to pass on these charges to you. So if you are ordering hardcover books, it will be most economical to consolidate your order to at least 3 books at a time.