Yep. Am pleased.
Yes me too, yesterday for my Birthday, something to read on the plane back
Yup me too!
[i]*Raises hand*[/i]
Have to say I was well chuffed - can't wait to get stuck into it.
Yup, another one here
And another 😆
I did too
I got two of them .. AllezWiggo by Daniel Friebe and My Time by Bradley Wiggins .. cant really say I got any real interest in reading either.
I ride bikes. But not got much interest in reading about others riding theirs..
Another one here...
packed together with the new Tom Clancy book.
That's a few nights of peace on the MM sofa 🙂
yep got one,installed in the loo library.
I did - got it from the OH - but now he's moaning because I may have commented about how fit I think he is a few times :-s
Haha,ye i got!.... will it be as good as armstrongs "its not about the bike" book i read few years back????... picsare good so far!
Yep, and Tyler Hamilton.
Me too
Enjoyed the foreword by Robert Millar
Dribbling my way threw "The dirt 100 2013" first
Me too, I got it.
If anyone got more than two copies (wiggo book) and wants some PP credits drop me an email - ta
I had no reading material this year?
Another one here along with the Rouleur Annual, ditched them down the side of the couch and went for a ride 🙂
yep 🙂
How does it end?
Nope But still waiting for the Steve Peat one !!!
I got two Wiggo books.!!
Yep, me too. And a rather dashing spade for t'gardening.
I have received a copy
#Raises hand#
Bugger.
It's now out of date already. Haven't had chance to start it yet.
At least he'll get a few more quid when it's reissued with the knighthood chapter 🙂
Yep, gift from Ms brodie.
Yep and Tyler's book. Every year I just send out my Amazon wish list and people get me things from that. Means I get something I want which often didn't used to be the case and I'm rubbish at hiding disappointment.
Yep, from SIL, plus the 21 Days to Glory book from the parents, chuffed with both frankly.
njee20 - MemberYep, from SIL, plus the 21 Days to Glory book from the parents, chuffed with both frankly.
Wife got me them both in a pack from Wiggle I think?
She also got me quite a few other beautiful photography books some including the spring classics 😀
Yep, got it and Vicky P's book from various in-laws over Xmas. Will read Sir Wiggo's first though.
Yup. Anyone want to swap it for the Secret Race?
Ah. Just got given a second copy!
Yep me to, and Matt Seatons book.
Yup and Secret Race as well.
Were they the first two on Amazons 'cycling books' recommendations or something?
May start one of them tonight 🙂
Yeah I got it. It's dreadful, worst, most boring cycling book I've ever read. And I've read a lot.
The thing with fairly well adjusted pro cyclists like Wiggo is that all they ever do is get up, ride a bike all day since their early teens. It doesn't make for much reading material really. I think it's only with bitter hindsight and a willing to spill the beans like Paul Kimmage that makes it interesting. Or someone like Obree who has a whole other side to his personality.
Good point actually. The good autobiographies are the ones that have shit to spill, and biographies go into the scandals in more detail. For example in wiggos book there's one sentence about garmin chasing down hincapie in 2009, and that was just to say it happened and it pissed cav off. Where's the explanation behind it?
He's at the top of his game now with media/PR/publishing consultants and the like. He's a national hero. There's no way he's going to spout off anything remotely interesting in a bloody book! He's gold plated! This one's just an embellished CV I reckon with a bit o faaamily history and some photos and whatnot, It's a cash in. And why not, good for him.
Give it a few years and I reckon Wiggo is the sort that will mouth off about all the crap that goes on in pro road cycling though. That sort of info is now a bit of a nest egg for him and he's got the gob and attitude for it..
I got it, and the Millar and Kimmage books. Wiggos was fairly bland but thats not all that surprising, thought Millars was fantastic but I really struggled with the Kimmage one as he seems to essentially hate everything about cycling.
+ 1 fo the David Millar biography..
Most interesting read since Riaan Manser Around Africa on my bike ...
(Not much cycling content but a cracking adventure)
Every year I just send out my Amazon wish list and people get me things from that.
I've been trying that for a while. I've had Millar's autobiography on there for about 2 years now, and they've still not bought it for me.
I flicked through the Wiggins one (I was given it for Chrimbles) and it does seem the usual ghost-written "this happened, and then that happened, and then I called her Susan, and we all lived happily ever after, the end".
I've just finished reading it last night - really enjoyed it.
But then I'm not one for gossip etc, for me it was just an interesting and pretty inspiring read about a fella who has worked bl**dy hard to get where he is, and that's what I would rather see than some retrospective bean spilling.
