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Post by gnm1974 on Mar 21, 2015 18:15:38 GMT
Phil Gaimon's Pro Cycling on $10 a day is a good read I too found this really good. Nice bit of humour. I do find most cycling books fascinating in one way or another and have read a few. I certainly recommend the following... Rod Ellingworth's book about setting up the British Academy and guiding Cav to World Champion is one of the best I've read - good insight in to the set up. Richard Moore's search for Robert Millar was an intriguing view in to the life of my sporting hero (Millar, not Moore!). Would have been good if he'd managed to make contact earlier in the book. All the Cycling Anthologies are superb. Ned Boulting's first book is an easier read and funnier than his second. I enjoyed reading Tyler Hamilton's book, regardless of the truth or what you believe. Charly Wegelius' book about the life of a domestique with zero wins to his palmares showed a different view to the majority of other books.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2015 18:22:12 GMT
Oh I had forgotten about Tyler Hamilton's. A fantastic insight into doping.
Charly Wegeilus will be my next purchase.
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Post by zebedee on Mar 22, 2015 1:11:20 GMT
I'll second gnm1974 with the "Search for Robert Millar". Thought it was a great read about a fascinating character. David Millar's was excellent. I'm currently half way through Ned Boulting's 'On the Road Bike', it's ok but nothing special yet. Zeb
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Post by erictherat on Mar 22, 2015 7:17:37 GMT
+1 for Charly Wegelius' domestique. a very honest and heartbreaking read. great insights to the peloton
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Post by Quizshow Legend on Mar 22, 2015 17:26:54 GMT
101 Damnations by Ned Boulting is a funny and engaging read. Got me through a Christmas with my wife's family.
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Post by beatnik69 on Mar 22, 2015 18:52:41 GMT
Chris Froome - The climb Anyone else reading via ebooks or are you still on physical books Preferring my physical books these days. Then audio books. No Kindle for me I used to be like that then got bought a Kindle for Valentine's Day. Our house is coming down with books so my plan is to use the Kindle for the books I don't really mid having around the house (cheap paperbacks, detective novels etc) and by the physical versions of the pretentious show-off books , photography books and the like.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 17:15:56 GMT
How could I forget The Rider by Tim Krabbe? Just started my second read through and it is still brilliant. Purely fictional but no less brilliant because of it.
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Post by robertsims on Mar 30, 2015 19:41:12 GMT
How could I forget The Rider by Tim Krabbe? Just started my second read through and it is still brilliant. Purely fictional but no less brilliant because of it. Agreed! Forgotten about that one...must get it back off my bookshelf. Excellent! If doesn't make you want to race then no idea what will.
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Post by islingtonnovice on Mar 30, 2015 20:02:39 GMT
Tim Moore's books are both great, French Revolutions and Girononimo. I've also read several of William Fotheringham's biographies of the cycling greats. They are very enjoyable.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 19:15:30 GMT
Sir Bradley ~ My Hour. A Christmas gift from my better half. She's a bigger fan than me so I suspect it was a gift to both of us ! Only about a third of the way through it very informative/technical with some out standing photos.
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Post by RobP on Dec 29, 2015 20:12:04 GMT
Just finished The world of cycling according to G Really funny and unlike most cycling books Geraint doesn't take himself too seriously. Read it on ebook but also have a personally signed copy collected from the man himself
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