Wheels on Ice
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3247-2 (ISBN)
Wheels on Ice reveals Alaska’s key role in bicycling both as a mode of travel and as an endurance sport, as well as its special allure for those seeking the proverbial struggle against nature. This collection opens with the first bicycle boom and the advent of the safety bicycle in the late 1800s, at approximately the same time gold was discovered in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. As bicycles evolved, Alaskans were among the first to innovate: the fatbike, for example, evolved from the mountain bike in the late 1980s into a wider-framed bike with fatter tires, making snow biking more accessible and giving birth to the Iditabike race. More recently, ultra-endurance cyclist Lael Wilcox rode all the major roads in the state, totaling more than 4,500 miles of gravel and pavement.
Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos’s diverse group of stories covers cycling both past and present. From riders commuting in every kind of weather to those seeking long-distance adventure in the most remote sections of the United States, these stories will inspire cyclists to ride into their own stories in Alaska and beyond.
Jessica Cherry is a geoscientist, writer, aerial photographer, and commercial airplane pilot living in Anchorage, Alaska. She writes a literary column for the alternative weekly Anchorage Press. Frank Soos (1950–2021) is the author of Unpleasantries: Considerations of Difficult Questions, Bamboo Fly Rod Suite, and Early Yet and coauthor of Double Moon: Constructions and Conversations. He was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alaska–Fairbanks.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Jessica Cherry
Introduction
Frank Soos
Part 1. Bicycling in Alaska, 1898–1908
Introduction
Terrence Cole
From Dawson to Nome on a Bicycle
Edward R. Jesson
A Broken Chain and a Busted Pedal: Max Hirschberg’s 1900 Bicycle Ride to Nome
Max Hirschberg
Cycling the Arctic: Levie’s Bicycle Ride from Point Barrow to Nome
H. B. Levie
Part 2. New Wheels, 1980s–2000
Introduction
Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos
Iditabike, 1987
Charlie Kelly
Iditasport Extreme: 350 Miles
Rocky Reifenstuhl
Iditasport, 1991
Gail Koepf
Hellbikes on Ice
Roman Dial
Biking the Haul Road
Dan Buettner
Pribilofs by Bike, 1994
Bill Sherwonit
Rough-Terrain Unicycling, 1997
Michael Finkel
Part 3. Wheels Now, 2001–2021
Introduction
Jessica Cherry
The Wind Grooms Our Trails
Daniel Smith
Skagway to Nome
Jeff Oatley
The Government Sign
Corinna Cook
Last Ride of the Season
David A. James
A Winter Bike Commute
Martha Amore
The Bike Thief
Don Rearden
The Killer Hill
Andromeda Romano-Lax
Cryo-Cave! An Ode to Indoor Training in Alaska
Eric Flanders
The Iditarod Trail and Me
Clinton Hodges III
That One Magnetek Time I Jumped Over Five Cars
M. C. MoHagani Magnetek
When There’s No One Left to Fight
Rachael Kvapil
The Books I Carried
Alys Culhane
Going Long, Going Solo
Corrine Leistikow
Physical Education
Jessica Cherry
There Is No Tomorrow
Bjørn Olson
A Positively Memorable Mountain Bike Ride(ish)
Eric Troyer
Back in Alaska to Share the Story of the Roads
Lael Wilcox
Nulato Hills: Biking Musk Ox Trails in Western Alaska
Luc Mehl
Growing Old with My Bicycle
Kathleen McCoy
The Magic Bus on Stampede Trail
Tom Moran
Tell ’Em about It: An Alaska Cyclist at Large
Earl Peterson
Acknowledgments
Source Acknowledgments
Contributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 26 photographs, 3 maps |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3247-X / 149623247X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3247-2 / 9781496232472 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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