The collection below is an incomplete set of references related to the bicycle.  It is incomplete in the sense that it does not include all available resources and some of the references below have parts missing.  If you would like to add something to the list, send e-mail to Dean Zollman.

Links to other resource lists
Books
Instructional Materials
Journal Articles
Magazines
Popular Entertainment
Software
Video Analysis Tools, Free or Low-cost
Video in Digital Format
Videodisc
Videotape

Other bibliographies

A Bibliography for Human Powered Vehicles References to German and English literature
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Software

Bicycle: Fahrrad Software, CD-ROM  (Modern Games, Alsdorf, Germany, 1996). A collection of shareware related to the bicycle.  Some of the programs are only vaguely related.

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Instructional Materials

Bike Frames - A Case Study, A course on strength of materials (The Open University, Milton Keynes, Great Britain, ).
Design, Bicycles, Invention and Innovation (The Open University, Milton Keynes, Great Britain, ).
Motion 1 (Enschede, The Netherlands).
Motion 2 (Enschede, The Netherlands).
PLON Staff, Traffic (Utrecht, 1982).  A significant fraction of traffic in The Netherlands is bicycle, so this unit is related to the bicycle.  Motion 1 & 2 (above) incorporates much of the Traffic material in a more traditional instructional format
Philip DiLavore, Bicycle Module, in Physics of Technology series (American Association of Physics Teachers, 1977)  Also available on Physics InfoMall CD-ROM.
PING Project Staff, Wir bewgen uns fort  (PING / KROB, Kiel, Germany, 1997(

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Videodisc

Robert Fuller and Dean Zollman, Energy Transformations featuring the Bicycle, (Great Plains Network, Lincoln, NE, 1984)

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Videotape

“The Evolution of Bicycle,”  (BBC, London, )
"Trial and Error" in the Search for Solutions series (Phillips Petroleum, Bartlesville, OK, 198x). One example of the Trial & Error approach is designing fast human powered vehicles.

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Video in Digital Format

Videosequenzen zur Auswertung mit DAVID A collection of videos which includes several bicycle (Fahrrad in German) scenes

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Free or Low-cost Video Analysis Tools

VidShell by Doyle Davis (free download)
DAVID - Digitale Auswertung von Videos (free download)
Digitale Video-Analyse (DIVA) (order form, price DM30,-)

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Popular Entertainment

American Flyers (German title Der Sieger - American Flyers) 1985 U.S. film about bike racing
Breaking Away  1979 U.S. film about the Little 500 bicycle race at Indiana University
Pacific Blues (German title: Pacific Blues: Die Strandpolizei)  1996 U.S. TV series about police who patrol the beach on bicycles.  My brief watching indicates that the camera spends more time focused on other beach objects and not on bicycles

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Books

Allan V. Abbot and David Gordon Wilson, Human-Powered Vehicles,  (Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1995)
Walter Boon, Die Fahrradschaktung:  Grundelagen, Auswahl, Einsatz (Moby Dick Verlag, Kiel, Germany, 1997).
Bernd Bund and Christain Kuhtz, Einfälle statt Abfälle: Das Tretmobil (Verlag Christian Kuhtz, Kiel, 1988).  Plans for building a side-byside tandem bike. No welding is needed.
Edmund Burke, Science of Cycling (Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1986).
Edmund Burke, High-Tech Cycling (Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1996).
M. Gressman, Fahrradphysik und biomechanik (Moby Dick Verlag, Kiel, Germany, 1996). 
Hannes Heupert, Das Powerbike:  Fahrräder mit elektrischem Zusatzantrieb (Moby Dick Verlag, Kiel, Germany, 1997).  Power bikes use an electrical motor to assist the rider.
Christain Kuhtz, Einfälle statt Abfälle: Schwerlast-Dreirad (Verlag Christian Kuhtz, Kiel, 1993) .  Plans for building a cargo tricycle
Dimitrij Arentevich Poliskuk, Ciclismo: Preparacion, Teoria y Practica . Translated from Russian to Spanish.  Contains lots of data on bikes, riding, etc.
Etzel Smolik, Das Grasse Farradlexikan (Bielefelder Verlagsantalt, Bileefeld, 1997)
Frank Whitt and David Gordon Wilson, Bicycling Science, Second edition. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 198x).  The best place to start when learning about the science of bicycling

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Journal Articles

“The Stability of the Bicycle,” Physics Today 23 (April), 34 (1970).
???, “Bicycle built for none,” Scientific American  (May) (1970).
Robert C. Hunt, “Bicycles in the Physics Lab,” The Physics Teacher 27, 160-165 (1989).
A.T. Jones, “Physics and Bicycles,” American Journal of Physics 10, 332 (1942).
J. Lowell, “The Stability of Bicycles,” American Journal of Physics 50, 1106-1112 (1982).
Peter Meroth, “Stadt Ohne Auto,” Natur: Das Umweltmagazine  (July), 40-47 (1989).
Peter Schmidt, “Wie Fahrradfreundlich ist der Republik?,” Natur: Das Umweltmagazine  (August), 26-31 (1992).
Jügen Schreiber, “Kommt Zeit - kommt Rad,” Natur: Das Umweltmagazine  (September), 42-49 (1982).
Jr. Thomas B. Greenslade, “More Bicycle Physics,” The Physics Teacher 21, 360-363 (1983).
S. S. Wilson, “Bicycle Technology,” Scientific American 228 (March), 81 (1973).
Rainer Wochele, “Die Spass-Maschine,” Natur: Das Umweltmagazine  (April), 71-73 (1988).
Rainer Wochele, “Von Rahmen und Reifen,” Natur: Das Umweltmagazine  (April), 74-77 (1988)

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Magazines

Bicycling a U.S. monthly publication (Rodale Press)
Mountain Bike a U.S. monthly publication

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