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What do you recommend? Enjoyed all of Ned Boultings books, Loved Domestique, found Millars first book difficult to get through.... What do I read on my hols?
Flying Scotsman is good
Read geraint Thomas's book a couple of weeks ago, was enjoyable, nothing too deep but entertaining.
Tyler Hamilton's book, The Secret Race. I thought it was an interesting read.
Didn't really rate Wiggins "My Time".
There's one by a guardian journalist about riding round Britain. That was quite good as far as I got but I've put it somewhere and not finished it 🙄
Mark Beaumont's "the man who cycled..." Are worth a read.
Just picked up Geraint Thomas book ready for my hols. Read a few pages and looks nice and light and humorous.
Sean conways just released his cycling around the world book. It's on my 'to buy' list
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cycling-Earth-Life-changing-Around-World/dp/0091959764
I read an article recently about this book, I haven't read it yet but will buy it once I get through the current backlog.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pursuit-Stardom-Nomades-Velo-Anglais/dp/1874739412
[i]"For much of cycling's "Fabulous Fifties" it was Brian Robinson alone who flew the flag for Britain abroad - that is until three young men set out to emulate his success, starting from ground zero. This book tells the story of how, along with fellow Yorkshireman Vic Sutton and South Londoner John Andrew, the intrepid Tony Hewson set off to conquer the European racing scene, first off in an old, battered, converted ex-WD ambulance, then in an oil-leaking pre-war Wolseley with a caravan in tow. Variously mistaken for gypsies, terrorists, undertakers, even market traders, these were our original cash-starved, have-a-go pioneers, whose inspiration prompted Tom Simpson and succeeding generations of would-be stars to cross the Channel. It is an often hilarious sometimes sad but never bitter saga of daring-do that found the trio rubbing shoulders with Coppi, Anquetil, Van Looy and the other greats of the era. It tells of how Andrews won a place in the prestigious Mercier-BP trade team and of how Sutton conquered the headlines with a brilliant display of climbing in the mountaains of the 1959 Tour and its relates Hewson's own pickings of primes and placings in after-Tour criteriums.It also provides a wonderfully evocative insight into what life was like in France and Belgium back in that far-off era."[/i]
Faster by Michael Hutchinson
Hearing good things about Getting Thomas's book, Chris Boardman's autobiography sounds worth a try as well
Two wheels on my wagon.
[url= https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gironimo-Riding-Very-Terrible-Italy/dp/0224100157 ]Gironimo[/url]
I listened to it when it was serialised on the wireless and found it very interesting / amusing. I must read the book...
The Monuments will keep you busy. Hamilton's book is a thriller. Pro cycling on $10 a day is very entertaining.
There and back by Ben Rockett
There's one by a guardian journalist about riding round Britain. That was quite good as far as I got but I've put it somewhere and not finished it
One Man And His Bike, Mike Carter? Really enjoyed that and didn't expect to.
Faster by Michael Hutchinson
Absolutely this, and The Hour - more knowledge than you can shake a stick, emminently readable and laugh-out-loud funny in places.
One Man And His Bike, Mike Carter? Really enjoyed that and didn't expect to.
Exact same for me... I've never read a book with so many funny bits within the first few chapters.
From what's been said above, I think I'll pick up The Hour, and G Thomas' book for my hols this year
I quite enjoyed this one,
A Bit Scott-ish: Pedalling Through Scotland in Search of Adventure, Nature and Lemon Drizzle Cake, by Mike Carden.
Kind of a cycle touring Bill Bryson.
C.
Tim Moore's stuff is very good, both bike and non bike.
I enjoyed every inch of the way by Tom Bruce
Death of Pantani is good, but very deep. G's is good, as is Dr Hutch's book about failing at the hour
Dr Hutch's book about failing at the hour
Spoiler alert! 😉 Good books though.