The Cyclist Who Went Out In The Cold
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The Cyclist Who Went Out In The Cold
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Author : Tim Moore
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-10-06
The Cyclist Who Went Out In The Cold written by Tim Moore and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-06 with Travel categories.
'Bill Bryson on two wheels' Independent Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off at the Arctic winter’s brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland. Haunted throughout the journey by the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse – at a time of ratcheting East-West tension. After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.
Frostbike
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Author : Tom Babin
language : en
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Release Date : 2014
Frostbike written by Tom Babin and has been published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Political Science categories.
The bicycle is fast becoming a ubiquitous form of transportation in cities all over the world, making our urban spaces more efficient, more livable and healthier. But many of those bicycles disappear into basements and garages when the warm months end, parked there by owners fearful of the cold, snow and ice that winter brings. But does it have to be that way? Canadian writer and journalist Tom Babin started questioning this dogma after being stuck in winter commuter traffic one dreary and cold December morning and dreaming about the happiness that bicycle commuting had brought him all summer long. So he did something about it. He pulled on some thermal underwear, dragged his bike down from the rafters of his garage and set out on a mission to answer a simple but beguiling question: is it possible to happily ride a bike in winter? That question took him places he never expected. Over years of trial and error, research and more than his share of snow and ice, he discovered an unknown history of biking for snow and ice, and a new generation designed to make riding in winter safe and fun. He unearthed the world's most bike-friendly winter city and some new approaches to winter cycling from places all over the world. He also looked inward, to discover how the modern world shapes our attitudes toward winter. And perhaps most importantly, he discovered the unique kind of bliss that can only come by pedalling through softly falling snow on a quiet winter night.
Gironimo
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Author : Tim Moore
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-05-01
Gironimo written by Tim Moore and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself. Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike with wine corks for brakes, some maps and an alarming period outfit topped off with a pair of blue-lensed welding goggles. From the Alps to the Adriatic the pair relive the bike race in all its misery and glory, on an adventure that is by turns bold, beautiful and recklessly incompetent.
Cycling Home From Siberia
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Author : Rob Lilwall
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-04-05
Cycling Home From Siberia written by Rob Lilwall and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“ It is late October, and the temperature is already –40 degrees . . . My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts; and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.” Having left his job as a high-school geography teacher, Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a healthy dose of fear. Cycling Home from Siberia recounts his epic three-and-a-half-year, 30,000-mile journey back to England via the foreboding jungles of Papua New Guinea, an Australian cyclone, and Afghanistan’s war-torn Hindu Kush. A gripping story of endurance and adventure, this is also a spiritual journey, providing poignant insight into life on the road in some of the world’s toughest corners.
Vuelta Skelter
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Author : Tim Moore
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-08-12
Vuelta Skelter written by Tim Moore and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road bike with the great man's name plastered all over it, set off to retrace the 4,409km route of his 1941 triumph - in the midst of a global pandemic. What follows is a tale of brutal heat and lonely roads, of glory, humiliation, and then a bit more humiliation. Along the way Tim recounts the civil war's still-vivid tragedies, and finds the gregarious but impressively responsible locals torn between welcoming their nation's only foreign visitor, and bundling him and his filthy bike into a vat of antiviral gel.
Need For The Bike
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Author : Paul Fournel
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-01-04
Need For The Bike written by Paul Fournel and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-04 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A book like no other, Paul Fournel's Need for the Bike conducts readers into a very personal world of communication and connection whose center is the bicycle, and where all people and things pass by way of the bike. In compact and suggestive prose, Fournel conveys the experience of cycling--from the initial charm of early outings to the dramas of the devoted cyclist. An extended meditation on cycling as a practice of life, the book recalls a country doctor who will not anesthetize the young Fournel after he impales himself on a downtube shifter, speculates about the difference between animals that would like to ride bikes (dogs, for instance) and those that would prefer to watch (cows, marmots), and reflects on the fundamental absurdity of turning over the pedals mile after excruciating mile. At the same time, Fournel captures the sound, smell, feel, and language of the reality and history of cycling, in the mountains, in the city, escaping the city, in groups, alone, suffering, exhausted, exhilarated. In his attention to the pleasures of cycling, to the specific "grain" of different cycling experiences, and to the inscription of these experiences in the body's cycling memory, Fournel portrays cycling as a descriptive universe, colorful, lyrical, inclusive, exclusive, complete.
Mindful Thoughts For Cyclists
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Author : Nick Moore
language : en
Publisher: Leaping Hare Press
Release Date : 2017-09-15
Mindful Thoughts For Cyclists written by Nick Moore and has been published by Leaping Hare Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
"Nick Moore reminds us all that however frequently we may cycle, two wheels is always a rather magical way to travel." - The Simple Things Cycling is about more than competitive racing, lycra, and physical endurance; it’s about joy, meditative wonder and spiritual enrichment. Mindful Thoughts for Cyclists presents a series of focused meditations on why and how cycling can be a powerful practice of mindful awareness. From the pleasure of riding down a hill, to finding the upsides of a flat, Nick Moore steers us on an enlightening journey through the true value of riding a bicycle.
The Death Of Marco Pantani
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Author : Matt Rendell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-11-15
The Death Of Marco Pantani written by Matt Rendell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The intimate biography of the charismatic Tour de France winner Marco Pantani, now updated to include the 2014 and 2015 investigation into Pantani's death. National Sporting Club Book of the Year Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 'An exhaustively detailed and beautiful book . . . a fitting, ambivalent tribute - to the man, and to the dark heart of the sport he loved' Independent On Valentine's day 2004, Marco Pantani was found dead in a cheap hotel. It defied belief: Pantani, having won the rare double of the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in 1998, was regarded as the only cyclist capable of challenging Lance Armstrong's dominance. Only later did it emerge that Pantani had been addicted to cocaine since 1999. Drawing on his personal encounters with Pantani, as well as exclusive access to his psychoanalysts, and interviews with his family and friends, Matt Rendell has produced the definitive account of an iconic sporting figure.
The Hungry Cyclist
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Author : Tom Kevill Davies
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2009
The Hungry Cyclist written by Tom Kevill Davies and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"From New York to Rio de Janeiro, with nothing but a puncture repair kit for protection. Tom Kevill-Davies embarks upon an epic pedal-powered quest in search of the perfect meal ... he discovers the real flavours of the Americas, eating guinea pigs one day and armadillos the next, dining with beauty queens and sleeping with dogs. From the Great Plains of the Mid West to the golden beaches of Brazil ... This is a gripping story of determination, daring and culinary adventure"--Publisher's description.
French Revolutions
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Author : Tim Moore
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-18
French Revolutions written by Tim Moore and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting even in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure.