RichardB
Slightly retro
- Location
- West Wales
My OH really enjoyed Pants of Perspective by Anna Macduff.
The title and author's name alone make this worth investigating.
My OH really enjoyed Pants of Perspective by Anna Macduff.
Ironically I loved the Christie Wellington book! Everyone’s different, I guess! Pants of Perspective is fabulous...it’s about long distance hiking. Anna McDuff’s new book Llama Drama is about cycle touring!One to skip is Life Without Limits by Chrissie Wellington. She was a recreational cyclist who discovered a talent for triathlon and achieved some incredible results in the sport. But it's just one of those books that never really goes much deeper than 'And then I did this... and then I went here...'. . She had obvious issues with eating disorders and an unhealthy perfectionism, and it could have been a valuable insight into the mental issues of being an elite athlete, but these are just mentioned in passing.
My OH really enjoyed Pants of Perspective by Anna Macduff.
One Man and his Bike. Mike Carter
An easy read about the difficult cycle he did round Britain in 2009(?). Quite a lot of platitudes...apparently its all about the people you meet... but for the most part he's a good guide and doesn't spare us some of the pain. He's a cyclist through and through and his love of what he's doing shines through. However his frustration at the end does seem to undo a lot of what he's said and the later parts are not as satisfying.
I recently wondered if I might attempt this task (in stages), but the other benefit of reading this is to confirm there's some of the best cycling in the world on the GB mainland and then there's the slog in between. Depends on what you want I spose.
Not a classic but not bad either. 3.5/5 from me.
Will check out some of the other titles recommended. Thanks.
Either of Emily Chappell's books are superb.
Is it about a bicycle?
The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones.
Not specifically, but bicycles get a mention or two:
It's a hilarious book. It's very ... I dunno ... Irish.