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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs Author
The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a direct and wonderfully optimistic indictment of the…
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Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road
by James Longhurst Author
A lively and vivid history of the bike vs car wars that have raged on US roads for 150 years. Beginning in the 1870s…
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Railroad Semantics #7
by Aaron Dactyl Author
Railroad Semantics is no less a high spirited an adventure to read than the train hopping it describes. You are swept…
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There's Something About a Train #5
by Hobo Lee Author
Some of the best travel writing published in the last 40 years appeared in the unprepossessing zine There's…
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Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility
by Jacob Shell Author
During World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiqués;…
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Chainring Heart
by Joe Biel Author and Aaron Renier Author
The image that started it all. The chainring heart is Microcosm's logo and still a fitting symbol of all we do.…
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City Cycling
by John Pucher Author and Ralph Buehler Author
Bicycling for transportation has been booming in cities around the world in the last 20 years. This collection of…
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Build a Bike Ambulance (And Other Flat Trailer Designs)
by Aaron Wieler Author
The nuts and bolts of bike trailers, including resources on dropouts, hitches, brazing, and ever-important safety…
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Community Bike Cart Design
by Aaron Wieler Author
A comprehensive guide to building your own bike cart or trailer - obtaining materials, design, welding or bolting the…
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There's Something About a Train #4
by Hobo Lee Author
If you've seen the movie Catching Out, then you've met Lee, who starting in the late 80s put out a biannual…
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There's Something About a Train #7
by Hobo Lee Author
The last, biggest, and best issue of the quintessential 90s freight-hopping zine brought to you by the Hobos from…
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Sticker #052Hate Driving in Traffic?
by Joe Biel Author
People are always complaining about traffic, when they are literally sitting in their cars and being part of the traffic…
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Sticker #375this machine runs on male tears
Keep crying, boys, all it does is make us stronger and faster. Some people drink the tears of men, some put them in…
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Sticker #227Your car door is a deathtrap
by Jerry Business Author
Car doors are such a danger to cyclists! An older sticker but not an old issue. Bike safe, bike cautious. (Sturdy…
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A Field Guide to Sprawl
by Dolores Hayden Author
Duck, ruburb, tower farm, big box, and pig-in-a-python are among the dozens of zany terms invented by real estate…
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The Trans Self-Care Workbook: A Coloring Book and Journal for Trans and Non-Binary People
by Theo Lorenz Author
A coloring book and journal for the trans and non-binary community, with practical advice and creative exercises to…
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The Five Books of (Robert) Moses
by Arthur Nersesian Author
After a domestic terrorist unleashes a dirty bomb in Manhattan in 1970, making the borough uninhabitable, the federal…
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Sticker #450251 Cars are in the Junkyard because I'm on the Road
237... I mean, 251 cars are in the junkyard because this bicyclist is on the road.(Sturdy vinyl sticker with black print…
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EuroHobo: (And I'm a Hobo!) A How-to Zine About Tramping, Freight Train Hopping, and Free Riding Passenger Trains in Europe
by Hobo Lee Author
Lee's guide to traveling through pre-EU Europe on about $200/month by hopping trains, hitchhiking, and…
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There's Something About a Train #6
by Hobo Lee Author
11 or 12 years after Hobos from Hell began as "a joke, a slogan, and a tiny 8-page newsletter," it became this…
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Trains of Serendib #2: The Ancient Cities (A Rail Journey through Sri Lanka)
by Aaron Dactyl Author
Aaron's train journey across all of Sri Lanka's rail lines continues.
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Trains of Serendib #3: The War (A Rail Journey through Sri Lanka)
by Aaron Dactyl Author
As Aaron continues his quest to ride every rail line in Sri Lanka from end to end, he bears witness to the lingering…
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There's Something About a Train #3
by Hobo Lee Author
Wanderlust is the strongest lust. This big issue of the seminal train-hopping zine from the 90s is packed with…
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$20 Superpack of Enjoyable Distractions
by Elly Blue Author, Kate Lopresti Author, Erica Dawn Lyle Author, Joshua Ploeg Author, Meadow Shadowhawk Author, 3 more
Sometimes you want to know everything that's going on around you, your brain whirring like a machine, soaking it all…
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$20 Superpack: Bathroom Reading
by Super Pack! Author
So many books! This should suffice for years of bathroom reading and it's now half price! All these books and zines…
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Gift Certificate!
by Microcosm Pub et al Author, Super Pack! Author and Various Author
With all these items in our catalog, it's sometimes hard to find the perfect gift for someone else. Why not take the…
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$5 Superpack: 5 Random Ebooks
by Super Pack! Author and Various Author
Like ebooks? We've made them for a whole bunch of our books. For five bucks, we'll send you five random ones.…
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Against Urbanism
by Franco La Cecla Author and Mairin O'Mahony Translator
The author of Against Architecture turns his critical lens to urban planning. He travels to cities around the…
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Evolution Bicycle
by Joe Biel Author
In this little story, we evolved to ride bikes. Which must be why it feels so damn amazing.
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Put the Fun Between Your Legs
by Joe Biel Illustrator
Get your mind out of the gutter! This beautiful pin, featuring a vintage bike with its message on delicate blue and…
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