Rob Penn

A journalist and lifelong serious cyclist documents his efforts to build a customized dream bike while tracing the cultural and scientific history of the bicycle as reflected by each of the components that went into his bike's construction. 30,000 first printing.

The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

It's All About the Bike

Tells the story of a journey to design and build a dream bike. From Stoke-on-Trent, where an artisan hand builds his frame, to California, home of the mountain bike, where the author tracks down the perfect wheels, via Portland, Milan and Coventry, birthplace of the modern bicycle, this narrative is about our love affair with cycling.

the pursuit of happiness on two wheels

It's all about the bike

Rob Penn travels the length and breadth of the Celtic fringe dressed in a kilt and clutching a blackthorn stick in order to become a Celtic poet on a quest to get to the bottom of his Celtic roots.

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