Author: Bill McGannPublisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598581805
Category : Bicycle racing
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Dennis Horn - Racing for an English Rose
Author: Peter UnderwoodPublisher: Mousehold
ISBN: 9781874739661
Category : Bicycle racing
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
At the age of 20, Dennis Horn won his first English Rose the emblem of a national track champion. Throughout the 1930s he rapidly graduated from the rough and tumble of makeshift grass track racing at country fairs and gala sports days to assail the heights of British track cycling on the great urban cycling bastions of the time the hard-surfaced stadiums of London's Herne Hill and Manchester's Fallowfield and become the star of British track racing. Every year from 1931 to 1938 he was awarded the seasonlong Meredith Trophy to add to those legendary gold and silver cups. This book tells his story.
Fallen Angel
Author: William FotheringhamPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0224074504
Category : Bicycle racing
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo champion of champions. The greatest cyclist of the immediate post-war years, he was the first man to win cycling s great double, the Tour
Tour de France Champions
Author: Giles BelbinPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750995386
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Tour de France is a race like no other, so perhaps it’s no surprise that it attracts racers like no other.The winner of the second Tour actually came fifth – but the four racers before him were disqualified for cheating.The 1932 champion credits his win with saving him from capture by the Nazis, as the soldiers recognised him from the podium.One of Britain’s best cyclists of the modern era only got into European racing by forging an email.Tour de France Champions is a journey to the summit of cycling, looking at those who have taken on the roads and mountains of France to prevail above all others and win cycling’s greatest prize. Giles Belbin presents the stories of all those who have claimed the original and greatest Grand Tour, the one race that still transcends the sport of cycling: the Tour de France.
Author: Noel Gordon HendersonTour de France
Author: Christopher S. ThompsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520934863
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the words of racers, politicians, Tour organizers, and a host of other commentators together with a wide-ranging analysis of the culture surrounding the event including posters, songs, novels, films, and media coverage Thompson links the history of the Tour to key moments and themes in French history. Examining the enduring popularity of Tour racers, Thompson explores how their public images have changed over the past century. A new preface explores the long-standing problem of doping in light of recent scandals.
The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman
Author: Harry PearsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Sport
ISBN: 1472945042
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Cycling is wildly popular all over Belgium, but in the northern, Dutch-speaking half of the country it is part of the psyche. Tiny Flanders boasts a population of just 6 million, yet this small corner of northwest Europe has produced eight winners of the Tour de France, five times as many professional riders as Italy or Spain. Blending reportage, interviews, observation, biography, and history, and written with affectionate humor by a committed Belgophile, The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman tells the story of Flanders' neurotic love affair with bike racing, from tough early heroes such as Jules Vanhevel--wounded by mortar fire in World War I and leading the world championship road race until he collided with a cow--to latter-day ironmen such as Tom Boonen, three-times winner of the Tour of Flanders and owner of a pet donkey named Kamiel.
Riding in the Zone Rouge
Author: Tom IsittPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781409171157
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Circuit des Champs de Bataille (the Tour of the Battlefields) was held in 1919, less than six months after the end of the First World War. It covered 2,000 kilometres and was raced in appalling conditions across the battlefields of the Western Front, otherwise known as the Zone Rouge. The race was so tough that only 21 riders finished, and it was never staged again. With one of the most demanding routes ever to feature in a bicycle race, and plagued by appalling weather conditions, the Circuit des Champs de Bataille was beyond gruelling, but today its extraordinary story is largely forgotten. Many of the riders came to the event straight from the army and had to ride 18-hour stages through sleet and snow across the battlefields on which they had fought, and lost friends and family, only a few months before. But in addition to the hellish conditions there were moments of high comedy, even farce. The rediscovered story of the Circuit des Champs de Bataille is an epic tale of human endurance, suffering and triumph over extreme adversity.
Icons: My Inspiration. My Motivation. My Obsession.
Author: Bradley WigginsPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008301751
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
With a foreword by Eddy Merckx The world of professional cycling is fraught with fierce competition, fervent dedication and unerring ambition, and only a handful of competitors reach iconic status. Among them is Sir Bradley Wiggins – a man uniquely placed to reflect on the history of this remarkable sport and its unforgettable titans.
The Wind In My Wheels
Author: Josie DewPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1405519681
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
As a young girl, Josie Dew developed an overpowering urge to travel. She also fell out of a fast-moving vehicle and, rather inconveniently, developed a lifelong aversion to cars. Along came her first bicycle, and she has never looked back. Four continents, thirty-six countries and eighty thousand miles worth of astounding adventures, eccentric characters, varied cultures and ever-enduring optimism are the result of her travels. From Saharan locust invasions to tree-climbing goats, and a customs official who wouldn't let her leave India because 'You are making me a very fine wife', her encounters are described with honesty, wit and perception. Strange incidents and bizarre circumstances punctuate her journeys: in Nepal she met a team of Frenchmen running from Paris to China, and a cyclist on his way from one Olympic Games to the next. In Udaipur she was greeted by everyone with the refrain 'Hello Mr. Jamie Bond Octopussy filmed here', whilst her view of post-Ceausescu Romania, a nation suffering and starving, affected her both physically and mentally. THE WIND IN MY WHEELS is informative, illuminating, and ceaselessly amusing.
