Forget all your books about whippet roadies or bearded MTBers, I’ve found the best bike book ever; it’s Japanese, I’m not sure what the title is, but it’s full of brilliant manga and anime pictures of bikes:

Manga Bike Book by Ben Cooper, on Flickr

Manga Bike Book by Ben Cooper, on Flickr

Manga Bike Book by Ben Cooper, on Flickr

Some of the pics are quite NSFW though…

Why does the Peugeot look like a Birdy?
Awesome book

The Birdy is made by Pacific in Taiwan, there are often different licensing arrangements in the Far East. Neobike made a version of the Brompton for example.

That reminds me – forgot to photograph it, but there’s a very cool Brompton made out of Lego in the book too, which actually folds!

Can you take a pic of the cover please Ben?

Great info. Tx

The cover:

Manga Bike Book by Ben Cooper, on Flickr

Ha ha. Thanks. Do you know where it was bought?

I got it from Amazon Marketplace from Japan. The ISBN is 978-4-86269-098-2 if you want to find it.

Thanks 🙂

Perfect.

Shame their is not an English version.

Mid 90`s book,

The “Mountain Biking Way of Knowledge”

It was basically a complete p**s take of all that we knew back then!! 🙄