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  • Recommend me a cycling related book(s), I need some new reading…..
  • cupra
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    Open to anything bike related except technique and maintenance ones. So travel / adventure, sport, autobiography, behind the scenes, anything considered but it needs to be non-fiction 🙂

    wwaswas
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    Just ordered this;

    http://www.rouleur.cc/velo

    not arrived yet though so recommendation based on pretty pictures I’ve seen…

    cupra
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    Let me know if it smells as nice as the Rouleur magazine! 🙂

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    titusrider
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    by far the best one to me is David Millars autobiography

    Cav’s is pretty kool too

    stufive
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    Tim krabbe the escape artist is a good one ive also recently read Gold by Chris Cleave which was a great story not all about cycling though but a good story line

    Nobby
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    For something slightly different, I enjoyed Fallen Angel by William Fotheringham – more about the personal life of/tragedy that was Fausto Coppi.

    cupra
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    Thanks. I’v read the escape artists by Matt Seaton and enjoyed that. I’ll check out Gold on amazon.

    messiah
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    Not this one then.

    stanfree
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    The two recent cycling books I’ve read are David Millar – Racing through the Dark and Paul Kimmage – Rough Ride which were both very good . Didn’t rate Lances autobiography and Ned Boultings book was ok but petered out a bit towards the end.

    The Mark Beaumont book was good but more travel I felt then cycling.

    mr_mills
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    David Millar’s, Cav’s and Chris Hoy’s are all good autobiographies. The Tom Simpson book is good too.

    cupra
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    pmsl at messiah! I liked the first Beaumont book but never bothered with the second one.

    This is great foklks, much appreciated.

    flange
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    Tyler Hamiltons book has just come out and is meant to be very good. I’ve got it but haven’t read it yet

    backinireland
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    Enjoyed this

    NormalMan
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    Two wheels on my wagon by Paul Howard.

    LapSteel
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    More beer than cycling but still enjoyed it

    trickydisco
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    rewski
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    Paul Howard +1

    Jill Homer: Be Brave Be Strong and Ghost Trails
    John Metcalfe: Dividing The Great

    manitou
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    Tyler Hamilton’s The Secret Race. Just started it, seems pretty good

    rkk01
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    at the mo…

    …The Secret Race

    I’m about half way through. Rather topical 😉

    Blackhound
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    Graeme Obree’s Flying Scotsman.

    tommyhine
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    It’s all about the bike by Robert Penn was an excellent read

    Orange-Crush
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    French Revolutions by Tim Moore.

    Solo
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    I liked.

    Racing through the dark.
    Dog in a hat.
    In search of Stardom. (just finishing it now)
    The rider.

    Ok-ish was the ” Escape Artist “.

    EDIT:
    How could I forget ?, ” put me back on my bike ” The story of Tommy Simpson.

    coastkid
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    velomanic
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    How I Won The Yellow Jumper (by Ned Boulting)

    lucien
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    Just finished Tyler Hamiltons book – blimey, get it and read it…..my eyes were widening at each turn of the page

    jameso
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    For travel / bike books, Rob Lilwell’s Cycling Home From Siberia is very good, Al Humpries’ books are great, really readable; Why Don’t You Fly? by Chrisopher Smith is also good.

    bruk
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    Three men on a Bike.

    Some non cyclists decide to ride through Africa on the Goodies Trandem, quite funny most of the way.

    yunki
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    Dervla Murphy – Full Tilt

    A very different take on the theme to the usual suspects..
    Another travel journal, it’s a great tale of a how a woman flies in the face of danger and tradition in a time when such things were frowned upon, to get a closer look at some interesting parts of the world, that few understand, but everyone seems to have an opinion on..

    She’s written some hefty sociology texts in her time too so she’s no bimbo.. and she does it all on a bike, with only a pistol and a packet of crisps to keep her safe and well..
    Well worth a read I reckon..

    Gee-Jay
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    Also “the hungry cyclist” – really enjoyed that

    crazy-legs
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    David Millar’s authobiography Racing Through the Dark
    Tyler Hamilton’s The Secret Race is very good.

    I’ve just started reading Victoria Pendleton’s autobiography “Between The Lines” – seems good so far.

    cupra
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    Thanks all, some great recommendations there, all much appreciated.

    ton
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    cupra, i have got 6 or so cycling related books if you are interested.
    tenner or so for the lot.

    kennyp
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    Racing Through the Dark and Fallen Angels are great books. So is Tomorrow, We Ride.

    Slaying the Badger is well worth a look too. And for something lighter, How I Won the Yellow Jumper.

    golfcurry
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    A Bit Scott-ish: Pedalling through Scotland by Mike Carden

    historically informative and humourous.

    drain
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    Another vote for French Revolutions – hilarious: as is Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder (it even has my wife laughing at it, since it’s uncanny in describing the behaviours she observes in me/my cycling friends).

    DavidB
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    drain…have you done the garage-multi-walk yet?
    Dave

    Ps. Thanks!

    jp-t853
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    I really enjoyed this although it does not tick the sporty box

    Edward Enfield

    kennyp
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    Another vote here for Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder. Most of us will be able to identify with big chunks of it.

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