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Any cycling-related books been published this year?
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cinnamon_girlFull Member
Last year there were loads but keen to read more adventure type books rather than a cyclist’s life story. Any recommendations please?
Thanks. 🙂
theotherjonvFree MemberNeither of the sort you mentioned, but I enjoyed Ned Boulting’s book from the inside of the tour, and he has a new one that’s on my Xmas list. Interesting and funny.
StirlingCrispinFull MemberFaster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World’s Fastest Cyclists by Michael Hutchinson (2014) is an excellent read even if you don’t race. Witty, entertaining and very informative.
turboferretFull MemberAnother vote for Faster too.
I appear to have bought a few cycling/adventure related books recently – the past 6 months shows this on my Kindle account 🙂
Life Cycles – A London bike courier decided to cycle around the world. 169 days later, he came back with a world record.
Julian SayarerRoads Were Not Built For Cars: How cyclists were the first to push for good roads & became the pioneers of motoring
Carlton Reid, Martin Rickerd, Edmund KingThe Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling’s Greatest One-day Races
Peter CossinsWe Were Young and Carefree: The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon
Laurent Fignon, William FotheringhamMid-life Cyclists
Chris McHutchison, Neil BlundellCrossing Europe on a Bike Called Reggie
Andrew P. SykesCycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Juliet MacurThe Cycling Anthology: Volume One
Lionel Birnie, Ellis BaconBreaking The Chain: Drugs and Cycling – The True Story
Willy VoetAlong The Med on a Bike Called Reggie
Andrew P. Sykes8,000 Miles Across Alaska: A Runner’s Journeys on the Iditarod Trail
Jill HomerArctic Glass: Six Years of Adventure in Alaska and Beyond
Jill HomerGhost Trails: Journeys Through a Lifetime
Jill HomerBe Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide
Jill HomerOne Day Ahead: A Tour de France Misadventure
Richard GradyThe Hour
Michael HutchinsonThe Race to Truth: Blowing the whistle on Lance Armstrong and cycling’s doping culture
Emma O’ReillyShadows on the Road: Life at the Heart of the Peloton, from US Postal to Team Sky
Michael BarryThe Climb: The Autobiography
Chris FroomeSean Yates: It’s All About the Bike: My Autobiography
Sean YatesNot read them all yet, and they aren’t all from this year, but a few to get started with perhaps!
Cheers, Rich
kayla1Free MemberFat Tire Flyer is very good 😀 If you don’t want to immediately go out and throw yourself down a hill on a SS clunker after reading it I’ll eat my hat 😆
cinnamon_girlFull MemberThanks very much all especially Rich with his huge list! 😀
butcherFull MemberMid-life Cyclists
Chris McHutchison, Neil BlundellQuite enjoyed this. Very much the life of your average cycling enthusiast, very much like Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder, which I think has been well read on this forum.
Chris Froome book I enjoyed too. But obviously very much about Chris Froome.
ninfanFree MemberI’d have to plug this one coz I wrote some of it:
Perfect bathroom reading 🙂
And as mentioned, Roads were not built for cars by Carlton Reid is very good
turboferretFull MemberApparently I bought a few in the previous 18 months too 😀
Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy
Tim MooreLanterne Rouge: The Last Man in the Tour de France
Max LeonardDomestique: The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro
Charly WegeliusAccidental Ironman
Martyn BruntI’m Here To Win: A World Champion’s Advice for Peak Performance
Chris McCormackInside Team Sky
David WalshSeven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong
David WalshSwim, Bike, Run, Laugh!:A Lighthearted Look at the Serious Sport of Triathlon and the Ironman Experience
Dan MadsonStrength and Conditioning for Triathlon: The 4th Discipline
Mark JarvisThe Perfect Race
Charles HowardRoad to Endorphia: Running and Ranting from John O’Groats to Land’s End
Joe DonnachieIronman:Jam, Gels and Isotonic
Mark KennedyNever Wipe Your Ass with a Squirrel: A trail running, ultramarathon, and wilderness survival guide for weird folks
Jason RobillardThe Long Run (Kindle Single)
Mishka ShubalyRun or Die
Jornet KilianRun!
Dean KarnazesMy Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon
Bart Yasso, Amby BurfootIronFit Strength Training and Nutrition for Endurance Athletes: Time Efficient Training Secrets for Breakthrough Fitness
Don Fink, Melanie FinkEat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Jurek, Scott
Order Details Printable Order SummaryQualifying for Kona: The Road to Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii
Raymond BrittFinding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Rich RollMarathon
Hal HigdonZen and the Art of Running: The Path to Making Peace with Your Pace
Larry ShapiroIron War: Two Incredible Athletes. One Epic Rivalry. The Greatest Race of All Time.
Matt FitzgeraldEat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Scott Jurek, Steve FriedmanHunger: The Sean Kelly Autobiography
Sean KellyRacing Hard
William FotheringhamOn the Road Bike: The Search For a Nation’s Cycling Soul
Ned BoultingWide-Eyed and Legless: Inside the Tour de France
Jeff ConnorMerckx: Half Man, Half Bike
William FotheringhamSex, Lies and Handlebar Tape: The Remarkable Life of Jacques Anquetil, the First Five-Times Winner of the Tour de France
Paul HowardPut Me Back On My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson (Yellow Jersey Cycling Classics)
William FotheringhamFallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi (Yellow Jersey Cycling Classics)
William FotheringhamIn Search of Robert Millar: Unravelling the Mystery Surrounding Britain’s Most Successful Tour de France Cyclist: Unravelling the Mystery Surrounding Britain’s Most Successful Tour De France Cyclist
Richard MooreRacing Hard
William FotheringhamRavings of a Runner
Greg MayMud, Sweat and Gears: Cycling From Land’s End to John O’Groats (Via the Pub)
Ellie BennettCycling’s Greatest Misadventures
Erich Schweikher, Erich Schweikher, Paul DiamondUltramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Dean KarnazesOne Man and LEJOG
Antony LastSwim, Bike, Run: Our Triathlon Story
Alistair Brownlee, Jonathan BrownleeBorn to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen
Christopher McDougallThe Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography
Matt RendellParis-Roubaix: The Inside Story. All the bumps of cycling’s cobbled classic.
Les WoodlandEddy Merckx: The Cannibal
Daniel FriebeChris Hoy: The Autobiography
Chris HoyCheers, Rich
DavidBFree MemberThank you Rich but can I also massively plug “Faster” by Michael Hutchinson which I read in 3 sittings it was so interesting.
projectFree MemberNed Boultings new book , 101 damnations, yep thats how is spelt, looks good.
projectFree Member“The Giant Singletrack book of Answers” will be out soon.
Followed by the “Singletrack, im always right and youre wrong compendium”
Confessions of a Moderator,looks intresting,
as does,
Tyres for any sort of weather,
and,
Cameroon and how a bike forum defeated the Conservatives,
crashtestmonkeyFree MemberGiven you’re asking for recommendations as well as just a list of people’s Kindle content…
Wegelius’ book is very good and novel in not being the story of a winner or a doping confessional.
Gironimo was entertaining but probably the worst (or least entertaining) Tim Moore book I’ve read.
Fallen Angel equally interesting as a story about a country and a time as it is about a legendary cyclist.
Seven Deadly Sins adds new material and a new perspective to an overtold story.
The Race to Truth by Emma O’Reilly, another LA story. Munqe Chick read it and really enjoyed it, reckons O’Reilly is far more pragmatic than you’d think and feels as hurt by journalists who used and burned her as by LA’s attitude.
Roule Britannia by William Foringtham is crap. A lazily updated and re-hashed book with new chapters tacked on covering more recent riders and cashing in on Wiggomania, but with no editing of older chapters (so the Robert Millar chapter describes him in the present tense as Britains most successful Tour rider).
At Speed, Cav’s second autobiography, is written in a conversational manner and also entertaining if taken for what it is (a story of recent events, the rest of his life’s already been done). Not worth hardback prices, we got it out of the library (old skool).
Etape by Richard Moore is a recent release, not read it yet, expecting to receive it this year!
MoreCashThanDashFull MemberTwo best I’ve read this year were At Speed and Mid-Life Cyclists.
If you’ve not read it, Geoff Thomas’ Riding Through the Storm is a good read.
I think I want to read the one about not wiping your ass with a squirrel. I can see it being a great companion piece to “How to Shit in the Woods”
winstonFree MemberNot a new book but not sure anyone has mentioned ‘cycling home from Siberia’ by Rob Lilwall.
No big fanfare and written in a fairly understated sometimes almost irritatingly too humble way but…wow.
wittonweaversFree MemberIts not new but i cant believe its not on the list already! Tyler Hamilton – The Secret Race. If you haven’t read it then you surely must!
cinnamon_girlFull MemberBlimey, how do you lot find the time to read AND post on ‘here??
Thanks again for the suggestions, it was really ideas for my kids pressie to me. I’m kinda done in with books on road riding, got 3 for Xmas last year, did treat myself to Seven Deadly Sins which had me hooked but didn’t know that Emma O’Reilly had written a book.
Didn’t know that DavidB is famous, will read your website properly. Looks interesting though!
Feeling that I’m needing a different perspective with cycling books hence the mention of travel.
Thanks again!
butcherFull MemberIf you haven’t read DavidB’s book, definitely do. There’s not many books that you can so easily relate to. And like I say, Mid-life cyclists is similar. Both up there with my favourite reads in the past couple of years.
RepackRiderFree MemberFat Tire Flyer is very good If you don’t want to immediately go out and throw yourself down a hill on a SS clunker after reading it I’ll eat my hat
Thanks for the compliment. Wall Street Journal liked it also. I had the good fortune of having my work reviewed in the WSJ by a friend, Rob Penn, who wrote “It’s All About the Bike,” and produced the BBC programme, “The Ride of My Life,” in which I get about ten minutes out of the hour show.
I have some favourite bike books, not all of them recent. However I concur that Tyler Hamilton’s “Secret Race” is pretty good. If you want to go all the way back to last year, Andy Homan did a biography of a top six-day racer at the turn of the 19th Century, “Life in the Slipstream: the Bobby Walthour Jr. Story.”
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