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  • June 8, 2013 at 6:45 pm #19039
    skitza

    Fiction/non fiction/training whatever! big up a good one i’ve just read Slaying The Badger (hinault-Lemond) great read

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  • June 18, 2013 at 11:33 am #741445
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    NeilG83

    I thought people on this
    I thought people on this thread might be interested in this offer: http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?productId=393576&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&categoryId=48130

    3 William Fotheringham books – Merkx Half Man Half Bike, Fallen Angel & Roule Britannia for £6.99. The same site also has the Le Tour 100 book at a reduced price.

    June 15, 2013 at 9:01 am #741443
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    skitza

    ta for the reccs folks loads
    ta for the reccs folks loads of new ones for me to find ,
    currently sitting on my ‘to read’ shelf are:
    Merkyz-half man half bike
    A race for madmen
    Nicholas Roche-inside the peleton
    Field of Fire
    Wide eyed and legless

    ill report back when ive read em

    June 15, 2013 at 7:56 am #741441
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    arfa

    Noobie here
    Racing through
    Noobie here

    Racing through the dark by David Millar was a painfully honest and fascinating book.

    I’d second obsessive cycling disorder and throw in free country by george mahood for a bit of light reading

    June 14, 2013 at 7:15 pm #741439
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    Adey

    Slaying the Badger – great
    Slaying the Badger – great read
    Got for my ‘jollies’ –
    Marco Pantani (the death of)
    The Secret Race
    Also thinking of getting ‘Inside the Peleton’ :B

    June 13, 2013 at 12:12 pm #741437
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    zanf

    +1 Tim Krabbe – The Rider
    +1
    +1 Tim Krabbe – The Rider
    +1 William Fotheringham – ‘Fallen Angel’ [Coppi] / ‘Put Me Back On The Bike’ [Tom Simpson]

    +1 Anne Mustoe – A Bike Ride: One of the best (series of) cycle touring books I’ve read.

    As Simon E says, she quit her job as a headmistress as a posh girls school after seeing a guy cycling whilst on holiday in Rajastan, India and thought ‘I want to do that’, despite not having ridden a bike for over 30 years.

    She spent 18 months following various historic paths (Roman roads, the campaigns of Alexander the Great, the Silk Road route, pioneers crossing the US to the west coast) and she writes with incredible depth and passion. She continued to cycle and write until her death 18 years later in Syria.

    Ones on the reading list:

    Charles Wegelius – Domestique
    Rob Hayles – Easy Rider
    Ned Boulting – How I Won The Yellow Jumper

    June 13, 2013 at 12:02 pm #741435
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    crazy-legs

    Bit of a leftfield one here
    Bit of a leftfield one here in that it’s not racing, it’s touring.

    Moods of Future Joys and the sequel, Thunder and Sunshine.

    It’s the story of Alistair Humphreys 5 year round-the-world ride. Funny, moving, fascinating and never involving doping or lies like most of the road racing books seem to!

    June 13, 2013 at 11:24 am #741433
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    bashthebox

    Yeah, it’s fucked isn’t it?
    Yeah, it’s fucked isn’t it? The greatest of all time, happy to promote cheating – when he vocally railed against it during his career.

    June 13, 2013 at 10:27 am #741431
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    Kapelmuur

    bashthebox wrote:You wonder

    bashthebox wrote:
    You wonder how Roche’s thoughts on doping square with his Dad, too?

    Thing with Merckx being a potential doper – they didn’t have much available to them, did they? Just a shit load of speed, and they were all taking it as we know. You can get similar(ish) effects to amphetamines by taking a load of caffeine, which a lot of riders do today.

    My disillusion with Merckx is not the amphetamine use, given the conditions riders operated in in his day it’s understandable, but the revelation that he sent his son to Dr Ferrari and his support for Armstrong.

    June 13, 2013 at 10:20 am #741429
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    bashthebox

    You wonder how Roche’s
    You wonder how Roche’s thoughts on doping square with his Dad, too?

    Thing with Merckx being a potential doper – they didn’t have much available to them, did they? Just a shit load of speed, and they were all taking it as we know. You can get similar(ish) effects to amphetamines by taking a load of caffeine, which a lot of riders do today.

    June 13, 2013 at 9:20 am #741427
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    Kapelmuur

    bashthebox wrote:Actually – I

    bashthebox wrote:
    Actually – I should postscript that recommendation with the fact that Merckx’s performances are never questioned – the author accepts wholly the explanation for Merckx’s failed doping tests.

    ….

    And in Seven Deadly Sins, the author casually mentions that Merckx introduced Armstrong to Michele Ferrari. So.

    I’ve just finished Seven Deadly Sins, a fascinating read but ultimately depressing. I’m particularly disillusioned about the Merckx revelation as he is (was) my all time sporting hero.

    Not a great book, but an insight into the life of a good,
    but not quite world beating, rider is Inside The Peleton by Nicolas Roche. He writes, in 2010, that Contador should have been banned for life – now he rides for Saxo Tinkoff!

    June 12, 2013 at 3:54 pm #741425
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    Jaltham

    Another vote for “Flying
    Another vote for “Flying Scotsman” by Graeme Obree. Deeply personal and riveting!

    June 12, 2013 at 1:49 pm #741423
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    bashthebox

    Actually – I should
    Actually – I should postscript that recommendation with the fact that Merckx’s performances are never questioned – the author accepts wholly the explanation for Merckx’s failed doping tests.

    ….

    And in Seven Deadly Sins, the author casually mentions that Merckx introduced Armstrong to Michele Ferrari. So.

    June 12, 2013 at 1:43 pm #741421
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    bashthebox

    Seven Deadly Sins is a great
    Seven Deadly Sins is a great read too.

    Did anyone mention Half Man Half Bike? That’s a good history book.

    June 12, 2013 at 1:17 pm #741419
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    Chuck

    ‘The Rider’, by Tim
    ‘The Rider’, by Tim Krabbe.
    Oh, and +1 for ‘The Hour’- I really enjoyed that.

    June 12, 2013 at 12:59 pm #741417
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    Pisiform

    “The Hour” – Michael
    “The Hour” – Michael Hutchinson

    A very interesting book about his attempt on the hour record. Well written and humorous.

    “In search of Robert Millar” – Robert Moore

    Really good autobiography about Millar with lots of background on cycling in the 80s.

    “The Flying Scotsman” – Graeme Obree

    Deeply personal and well written account about his career and pretty unflinching about his mental health problems.

    And +1 to all of the above especially Rob Penn and Dave BArter.
    Don’t dismiss the Cavendish autobiography “Boy Racer”, it was much better than I’d thought it would be and he’s a more complex man that I’d appreciated.

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