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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 12, 2013 at 11:51 am #741415
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    d_jp

    +1 to “It’s all about the
    +1 to “It’s all about the Bike” by Robert Penn
    +1 “How I won the Yellow Jumper” by Ned Boulting

    June 12, 2013 at 10:58 am #741413
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    Tjuice

    chiv30 wrote:The secret race

    chiv30 wrote:
    The secret race , Tyler Hamilton very interesting read in the light of LAs recent confessional

    +1

    June 12, 2013 at 9:46 am #741411
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    cidermart

    Oh yes to Tim Moore ‘French
    Oh yes to Tim Moore ‘French Revolutions’ I had some very strange looks in the hospital reading that one 😀

    June 11, 2013 at 10:49 pm #741409
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    big shug

    Dave Barter – Obsessive
    Dave Barter – Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder – funny and scarily familiar short essays on MTB and road obsessions.

    Ned Whatsisname – How I won the yellow jumper – no great literary classic but a good holiday read.

    +1 Escape Artist

    June 9, 2013 at 1:35 pm #741407
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    Super Domestique

    Best one I’ve read is not
    Best one I’ve read is not road but mtb.

    Two wheels on my wagon by Paul Howard.

    Utterly brilliant.

    June 8, 2013 at 9:45 pm #741405
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    JediNeo

    Chasing the Chimney Sweep by
    Chasing the Chimney Sweep by Selwyn Parker. http://books.google.co.nz/books/about/Chasing_the_Chimney_Sweep.html?id=n61ZAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Quite enjoyed reading about a couple’s tour around France following the 1903 route. Interspersed with bits of the history of that race.

    June 8, 2013 at 9:36 pm #741403
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    The Rumpo Kid

    Agree about “French
    Agree about “French Revolutions” and “A Bike Ride”. They really inspire the reader to spread their own wings a little wider. “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” by Richard and Nicholas Crane is also well worth a read for those who are bikepacking masochists, and those who are glad they’re not.

    June 8, 2013 at 9:24 pm #741401
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    skitza

    Fantastic ! loadsa new books
    Fantastic ! loadsa new books to find 😀

    I really enjoyed the insights in Armstrongs book until well you know, also enjoyed sex lies and handlebar tape (Antequil) was good as was Merckx the cannibal, Paul Kimmage rough ride was an eye opener and put me back on my bike (tom simpson ) was a cracking read.

    Keep em coming! And what about training books ? any good ones out there?

    June 8, 2013 at 8:51 pm #741399
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    Simon E

    You started with a
    You started with a cracker.

    +1 for Laurent Fignon.

    ‘In Pursuit of Stardom’, Tony Hewson’s account of his adventures of continental cycling, is as good as it gets. It gives a real insight into what it was really like for three talented young English lads who had a real adventure on a shoestring.

    Will Fotheringham’s books about Coppi, Simpson and Merckx plus Tomorrow We Ride… by Jean Bobet about his life riding alongside brother Louison are good if you want to understand the history of the sport. Bobet’s is a particularly touching account.

    To see the modern Tour de France rider’s experience A Significant Other by Matt Rendell documents Colombian Victor Hugo Pena riding for Lance with US Postal. A very different team tale at the Tour is that of ANC-Halfords in Wide Eyed and Legless. Calling it chaotic and a shambles doesn’t come close.

    For a vivid (and apparently accurate) insight into the mind of a racer: The Rider by Tim Krabbe. Matt Seaton’s emotional rollercoaster The Escape Artist is similarly personal but factual. As is The Flying Scotsman. Amazing bloke.

    Also factual and very funny – French Revolutions by Tim Moore. In fact, I think I’ll read this again between now and the Tour start.

    I wouldn’t bother with mini-autobiogs by Cavendish or Wiggins. Too dull. However, David Millar’s account of his life, including lots on his doping and its aftermath, is riveting.

    And something completely different – A Bike Ride by Anne Mustoe. Headteacher at a posh girls’ school just buys a Condor more or less on a whim and rides off around the world not even knowing how to mend a puncture.

    June 8, 2013 at 8:20 pm #741397
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    netclectic

    Consumed by Jonathan
    Consumed by Jonathan Budds
    http://consumed-novel.com/

    June 8, 2013 at 8:15 pm #741395
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    Stumps

    The Death of Marco Pantani: A
    The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography. Very moving but also very interesting.

    June 8, 2013 at 8:03 pm #741393
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    chiv30

    The secret race , Tyler
    The secret race , Tyler Hamilton very interesting read in the light of LAs recent confessional

    June 8, 2013 at 7:16 pm #741391
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    Leviathan

    ‘Its not about the bike.’ –
    ‘Its not about the bike.’ – Lance Armstrong*
    Fiction Category.

    *joke

    June 8, 2013 at 7:07 pm #741389
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    andybnk

    We were young and carefree by
    We were young and carefree by Laurent Fignon! Especially for the quote “m’seiu, are you not the man who lost the tour by 9 seconds?” “Non m’seiu I am the man who won it twice!”

    June 8, 2013 at 6:51 pm #741387
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    Gkam84

    Its all about the bike (The
    Its all about the bike (The pursuit of happiness on two wheels) – Rob Penn

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