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  • good pro cycling book (ideally modern era)
  • sefton
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    can anyone recommend a good pro tour book or autobiography?

    jamess
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    David Millar’s latest

    tomlevell
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    Bad Blood
    Laurent Fignon autobiography (probably older than you want)
    David Millar autobiography
    Marco Pantani book by Matt Rendall
    Slaying the Badger (again probablt older than you want)
    The hour – Michael hutchison (not pro tour but interesting)
    Obree

    Then there are the Sky/Cavendish/Wiggins books but I’ve not read any of them to recommend them. All seem a bit premature.

    grahamt1980
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    Millars book is very good,
    Cavs book is great too.

    mauja
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    +1 for Cav’s Boy Racer. It was a gift and didn’t think I’d like it but really enjoyed it.

    Blazing Saddles is also a good read if you’re interested in the tour de france and it’s history.

    wors
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    At the risk of being flamed, Lances books are worth a read.

    jonba
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    How I won the yellow jumper by Ned Boulting is good. Millar’s book, really interesting.

    crazy-legs
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    Another vote for How I Won the Yellow Jumper by Ned Boulting. If you’ve got Kindle then you can download a short book called Dispatches from The Tour by Boulting as well. Very dry sense of humour, good read.

    Millar’s book as well, fascinating read.

    kilo
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    Rough ride by kimmage
    Pantani book by Matt Rendall
    The hour by Hutch (as said not pro but v good0
    the fignon autobiography was good.
    The flyiong scotsman by Obree was very interesting
    my all time fave The Great Bike Race by Geoffrey Nicholson (out of print now but the story of the 1976 tdf)

    read the cav book, so enthralling i can’t realy remember any of it

    jonathan
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    Rough Ride, Bad Blood and The Life and Death of Marco Pantani should set any modern cycling fan up for a lifetime of healthy scepticism 😉

    How I Won the Yellow Jumper is a very enjoyable read

    sefton
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    cheers, got Cavs boy racer a while back.

    I got Eddy Merckx half man half bike

    atlaz
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    The Fignon biog is excellent despite the age. He doesn’t pull any punches about his state of mind and what it takes to compete at his level. Bad blood is another great one.

    bikebouy
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    Try Rouleur’s website, they do some cracking reads.

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