[Closed] cycling books

Bad Blood
The escape Artist.
What was that one about the chap in a race? The rider, that one is great.
Lance's first book is interesting but you do get to learn what he's a bit odd.

Read them, and I agree, 'The Rider' is excellent. Dont, under any circumstances, read 'Bikie' - it's p**s poor.

My recent favourite is "Full Cycle" by Vin Denson. Really gwenuinely pleasant autobiography. Denson was a contemporary of Simpson's and rode for Anquetil. It doesn't have a sad ending, or any nastiness at all, and there are some lovely pictures of the author as a young man presenting a prize to a very young Victoria Pendleton. 🙂

Oh, and William Fotheringham's bog of Coppi "Fallen Angel" is brill. Also like Matt Rendell's "A Significant Other". Rendell is very good on Pantani as well "The Death of Marco Pantani", although it's very interesting to read Manuela Ronchi's biog of Pantani ("Man on the Run"?) for comparison.

Willy Voet: Breaking the Chain is a good read, the true story of drugs in cycling and how some attitudes have changed and some have not !!

'Team on the run' is worth reading, as is 'Boomerang road' by Quentin Van Marle. Oh 'A dog in a hat' as well.

Have read a few racing cyclists biographies, but too many of them are pretty much "I rode a bike, it was hot/cold/raining (delete as applicable) against "insert name of notorious strongman of the era here", up "insert name of well known stern alpine climb here" it was quite hard, and hurt...a bit.

After a while they all blend into one...

I love the annual Cycling Book Season. 😀

The Escape Artist - Matt Seaton is a moving book about an amateur racing cyclist and how cycling impacts on varius stages of his life.

I tell you what's missing from any list of cycle books, the dramatic lack of fiction. 'The rider' is actually fiction but it's close enough to be based on true events.

What we need is someone to write a book about the equalizer on a bike instead of a fat old bloke in a jag or post apocolyptic Stoke on Trent where leather clad cycle gangs fight for control of the suburbian rabbit farms.

No, I've got it. A unknown assassin is slowly picking off the capitols fixie riders. Each rider is killed in a brutal and obscure manner and is left positioned on a seemingly random street (but in actual fact the first letter of all of the streets can be rearranged to form the sentence 'get some ****ing brakes').

I reckon that'd be a good seller because everyone hates fixie riders and the murderer could turn out to be Nigel Havers. We could embed some subliminal messaging in the book so after someone had read it they would be filled with a compulsive desire to throttle the little shit.

o, I've got it. A unknown assassin is slowly picking off the capitols fixie riders. Each rider is killed in a brutal and obscure manner and is left positioned on a seemingly random street (but in actual fact the first letter of all of the streets can be rearranged to form the sentence 'get some ****ing brakes').

Nobody saw me, they can't prove a thing.

the escape artist
french revolutions
bad blood

how about a "28 days later" or "omega man" type book - where the non-zombie surviviors take to the hills and are forced to utilise mountain bikes and bivvying skills to survive

the zombies could slowly stagger around the paths and countryside in large shambling groups moaning "where'ssss yoouuuur beeelllll?"

or lull the un-suspecting cyclists into trusting them by asking what tyres.

Samuri - is this the face of a killer?

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It might not be what you're after, but ive just downloaded the MP3 version of [url= http://www.downtheroad.org/ ]this book[/url]about a couple who saved up and sold up and are now cycling around the world.

I'm going to buy the books too, when i find them.
Im very tempted to do the same myself, if i can.