Wednesday Blog Watch - Of Bicycling

The Tour de France began this past weekend, and this Wednesday Blog Watch is dedicated to cycling.  No discussion of bicycles here would be complete without mentioning David Gordon Wilson's Bicycling Science, the definitive guide to the engineering and science of bicycles.  For an online look at the science behind the bicycle, San Francisco's Exploratorium museum has an excellent website for their Science of Cycling exhibit.
Author Wilson is active in bicycle advocacy, and as reported in Bike Biz, he recently spoke at a cycle advocacy conference in Australia about how to use litigation to encourage bicycle manufacturers to build safer bicycles.
Speaking of bicycle advocacy, two recent fun British advertisements to promote bicycling:
Transport for London's "You're Better Off By Bike" TV ad, and Cyclists Touring Club's "Cycle Hero" ad, both on YouTube.
The MIT Press has a bicycle-oriented book for urban/transportation planners: Bicycle Transportation.  As a professional engineer and an avid bicyclist, the author John Forester combined those two interests in founding the discipline of cycling transportation engineering, which regards bicycling as a form of vehicular transportation equal to any other form of transportation. He developed the 'Effective Cycling Program', which can be found on his website (or in the Effective Cycling book).
If you're interested in bicycling history, you might want to visit the Bicycling Museum in Buffalo, New York.  Also, the evolution of the bicycle is one of the main stories in Of Bicycles, Bakelite, and Bulbs, a classic text about the history of technology.
Finally, some favorite bicycle blogs are Bicycle Diaries, Bicycle Design, and Bicycle.net...