Hilton’s atmospheric accounts of the classic races reflect knowledge of geography, buildings, social history and culture. Despite his classlessness, Hilton is a traditionalist. Cycle races, he opines, belong to newspapers and not TV companies. [click title for more]
Based on the writer’s ‘25-year addiction to this unique event’ this is, says Fife, ‘an attempt to get inside the Tour’s mystique’ rather than a history. A thoroughly enjoyable book to add to your shelf of addictions. [click title for more]
A magnificently produced collection of photos by Pellizzari, illustrating eighteen of the world’s professional stage races, many of them little-known to your average fan. [click title for more]
The book is good on periodisation of training, how to ride in echelons, RPE, and how to plan your training schedules. There are 15 or so detailed ready-made schedules which riders can easily adapt for their own needs. [click title for more]
I enjoyed the first half of this book. Well-written accounts of childhood and youth are usually attractive. An account of a cycling trip to Timbuktu takes hold of the reader because it’s life on another planet, [click title for more]
Simon produced a copy of a new and updated version of his earlier book. I believe that it should be required reading for anyone participating in cyclo-cross. It contains a wealth of information, valuable advice and guidance from a man who is an acknowledged expert in this branch of cycle sport. [click title for more]
If you’re a Guardian reader you already read Matt Seaton’s weekly column, ‘Two Wheels’, and because it invariably contains some witty, perceptive look at cycling in contemporary Britain, you wish you’d cut them out before you put the papers in the recycle bag. Stop grieving. [click title for more]
In his 87th year it’s good to have this personal account of Tom Godwin’s life in and around the sport in which he has spent his entire life, as rider (two Olympic bronze medals), bike shop owner, manager, coach, and all-round ambassador for cycling. [click title for more]
The story of Hutchinson’s attempts is dreadfully fascinating, a bit like the tortures of medieval heroines. But that’s not all: in addition there’s the history of the Hour Record, quite a lot of general cycling history, a discussion of doping, and a lot of good humour. [click title for more]
This is, as far as I know, the first complete history of the Tour of Spain in English (there’s a Spanish history from 1935-85). Any cycling historian, or cyclist for that matter, who pretends to have a comprehensive library will feel obliged to have a copy. [click title for more]
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