Background
Forester, John was born on October 7, 1929 in London. Came to the United States, 1940. Son of Cecil Scott and Kathleen (Belcher) Forester.
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Effective Cycling is an essential handbook for cyclists from beginner to expert, whether daily commuters or weekend pleasure trippers. This thoroughly updated seventh edition offers cyclists the information they need for riding a bicycle under all conditions: on congested city streets or winding mountain roads, day or night, rain or shine. It describes the sheer physical joy of cycling and provides the nuts-and-bolts details of how to choose a bicycle, maintain it, and use it in the most efficient manner. Effective Cycling covers the bicycle itself, repairs and maintenance, basic and advanced cycling skills, and how traffic is organized. It describes cycling with friends, bicycle tours, increasing physical endurance, racing, and even finding a cyclist as marriage partner. Throughout, author John Forester emphasizes that cyclists should consider themselves drivers of vehicles in traffic. That means obeying the rules of the road, because when all drivers obey the same rules, they don't have collisions. Forester explains why cyclists should not be afraid to cycle in traffic, and he urges them to resist being shunted off into government-sponsored bike paths as if they were incompetent children. Cyclists fare best, he says, when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles. Effective Cycling will help owners of bicycles dusty from disuse become active cyclists and veteran cyclists improve their techniques and achieve their cycling goals. Each section moves from basic to advanced topics; readers are encouraged get on a bicycle and practice each activity after reading about it.
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A professional engineer and avid avocational bicyclist, John Forester combined these interests in founding the discipline of cycling transportation engineering. This book presents the basic principles of the field, buttressing the author's arguments in an earlier, privately printed edition with new insights and updated information. In this book, Forester contends that when motorists and cyclists obey existing traffic laws and regulations, and when each group respects the other's right of way and rights to the roadway, riding a bicycle along streets with traffic is safer than pedaling on restricted bike paths and bike lanes. He argues the case for cyclists' rights with passion, zeal, and statistics. His opinions are not simply the whimsical notions of a man who loves cycling, but are solidly based on experience, traffic studies, and roadway design standards. Bicycle Transportation begins by comparing "vehicular cycling" to what the author calls "inferiority cycling." Among the numerous topics it discusses are the demographics and economics of cycling, accidents, the effects of bicyclists on traffic, effective educational programs, improving bicycling facilities, and dealing with government cycling policy. The book outlines the complete process of cycling transportation design and offers a recommended cycling transportation program.
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The core of John Forester's concept of effective cycling is that bicyclists fare best when they act, and are treated in return, as drivers of vehicles, with the same rights and responsibilities that other drivers have. In this new edition of his classic introductory work, Forester reasserts this idea in terms of practice and education as well as theory while also addressing - among much else - the two major forces that have shaped bicycling since the early 1980s: the proliferation of high-quality equipment (including the phenomenal increase in popularity of mountain bikes) and the seriously insufficient progress on the social, political, and psychological fronts. The book is filled with details, strategies, and tips that will be useful both to occasional cyclists and to those who enjoy bicycling as a way of life - all drawn from the author's many years of experience as a cyclist, a Cycling Transportation Engineer, and the founder of the Effective Cycling Program.
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cycling transportation engineer
Forester, John was born on October 7, 1929 in London. Came to the United States, 1940. Son of Cecil Scott and Kathleen (Belcher) Forester.
AB, University of California, Berkeley, 1951; Master of Science, California State University, Long Beach, 1964.
Cycling transporation engineer, Sunnyvale, California, since 1972.
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Research board bicycling committee transporation National Academy of Sciences, 1977-1983.