You older readers can give yourself a pat on the back if you’ve made the connection between today’s Cyclorama website (and soon-to-be-published book) and the ground-breaking Encycleopedia from 15+ years ago. Cyclorama is Encycleopedia for the digital age. Some of the same team, same town and most importantly, the same goal – of inspiring people to pedal by providing them with information and inspiration.
The people behind Encycleopedia, Bike Culture Quarterly and Bycycle magazine quit publishing for a decade to create Get Cycling, a Community Interest Company whose aim is to promote cycling. Get Cycling works outside of the mainstream cycling industry at a grass roots level, promoting cycling to the general public and to school children via their Bike Try-Out Roadshows. They are particularly renowned for their work in the area of cycling for people with special needs.
But I digress. The last few remaining copies of Encycleopedia, Bike Culture Quarterly and Bycycle magazine along with Jim’s History book: On Your Bicycle have been in storage for a decade. With the imminent arrival of the Cyclorama Book in February I thought that it would be the perfect time to offer them for sale. So here they are. They are in pretty good condition considering they’ve been knocking about in storage for more than ten years. These are the very last of them, and when they are gone they are gone.
I was an big fan of Open Road’s publications long before I was an employee. These books and magazines showed what was possible and motivated a generation of cyclists to discover alternatives in cycling and truly inspired fresh thinking. For me it’s genuinely an enormous honour to be responsible for selling off the last remaining editions of these historically important publications. Bike Culture are worth buying just for the cover art! Right click on the images and ‘view image’ to get a bigger pic.
The books and magazines are available exclusively through Cyclorama’s Amazon account, which is now up and running with the first few editions to be released. The remaining publications will be uploaded throughout November.
For a preview of the editions which are available please visit our Facebook gallery.
If there is a particular edition or story you would like to locate, or you’d like any more information please let me know via admin(at)cyclorama.net
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I have all the issues of BCQ from start to end: it was a very important resource before WWW access was so widespread !!
And I still subscribe to VeloVision magazine
Thanks Simon, we’re big fans of Velovision too (I must remember to renew my sub!).
We have original binders for BCQ if you’re interested, email me: mick.allan(at)cyclorama.net
Cheers, Mick