Books on cycling
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I did. A bit of a wasted opportunity. But if you were a fan you'll probably forgive its many faults.
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He features in "The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands" by Harry Pearson. I enjoyed that.
I have the audiobook of God is Dead but haven't started it yet.
I have the audiobook of God is Dead but haven't started it yet.
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Yes I will. I thought the book was out already but I found out it's coming out this June or July.No but you have me interested! What a tragic storyLet us know if it's any good!
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Daniel Friebe has written a book about Jan Ullrich which will hit the stores in a months' time. I think I have to have that one.
The name of the book: Jan Ullrich - The Best There Never Was
The name of the book: Jan Ullrich - The Best There Never Was
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don't think so...it's a novel which is situated in french flanders, the son of a famer is a cyclist, his family is a real modest and socially poor family with all problems related to that
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What was the last cycling book you read, Fred, and what did you think of it?
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My Year in Top Gear. it was called. A fun read, light and fluffy, but really poorly translated as some of the bits quoted here will show you.
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Yeah could be fun. If I end up reading it again I will post some stuff here.
It contained some funny stuff like Michele Scarponi apparently being all terminator-mode in MSR and telling Gilbert "I'll see you on the Poggio" after making his miraculous return to the front group (caught behind a fall or something).
Also Leukemans really, really wanted to buy Brabantse Pijl according to Gilbert.
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This is less a rec and more a warning: Kenny Pryde's The Medal Factory - a look-back-with-Pryde account of British Cycling's history from 1995 through to 2019 - has finally appeared in paperback, two-and-a-half years after its original publication. And instead of being updated for those two years with a new chapter tacked on at the back, it's actually shorter than it was before, six pages having been cut from the original after Nicole Cooke took the publishers to the High Court.
A question for you: how much of BC's current problems - the recent PR missteps, the changes of personnel at the top of the organisation - is a product of the bullying accusations that Jess Varnish initiated in 2016? People like Pryde dismiss Varnish and other critics of BC, try to suggest they were whingers who had no impact, but looking at the organisation today, those critics do seem to have landed some strong blows on the fed, no?
A question for you: how much of BC's current problems - the recent PR missteps, the changes of personnel at the top of the organisation - is a product of the bullying accusations that Jess Varnish initiated in 2016? People like Pryde dismiss Varnish and other critics of BC, try to suggest they were whingers who had no impact, but looking at the organisation today, those critics do seem to have landed some strong blows on the fed, no?
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Fab book. Lovely mix of cycling history and French history.
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What did you think of the writing? Too lyrical and romantic to be Martin, more like Carrey, or did it feel like it was Martin speaking to you?
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