A new eBook.

If you are going to ride on two wheels there are some cities you definitely want to avoid. London, for one, where it’s always raining. Rome, where it never rains but every car driver is a homicidal lunatic. And Amsterdam where you will, likely as not, be run over by another bicyclist.

But bring your bike to San Francisco and, so long as you avoid the hills and the attendant coronary, your chances of having a good time are pretty solid, for this is one of the friendliest cities for two wheel transportation in the universe.

You see them everywhere, in every size and shape. They live in the city or pour in daily on the BART or the Caltrain. They park just about anywhere they like, free, and if you want to ride your bike on the sidewalk, have at it. The cops are too busy with their donuts and coffee to care.

The author on the BikeCam, with the Panny G1 in San Francisco.

To download the eBook just click the picture. The file is under 4mB in size and is optimized for the iPad; load it from one and you will have the option of opening it in the Books app. It also shows fine on laptops, and well on all but the largest desktop screens. The image sizes have been constrained to limit file size and to keep download times short.

All snaps taken in San Francisco during January, 2011.

To see how this eBook was made, click here.