Does cycling fiction exist?

[Globalti]

There's plenty of cycling non-fiction what with all the cyclists' memoirs and so on. But what about fiction? Any novels or short stories about cycling?

Another question: I had some short cycling stories published in Singletrack magazine some years ago. Does the magazine retain the copyright to such an article (I received no payment) or is the author free to re-publish the stories elsewhere?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yes Cycle fiction exists, its called a 'tail wind'.

Seriously though, if they couldn't even be bothered to pay you, then why bother with them? Publish it elsewhere and if they complain, point this fact out to them.

I submitted a photo to a railway magazine a few years back and they didn't pay me when I knew for a fact that they paid others. Why the hell should I show any reverence to them ever again??
Certainly with photographs, the image remains your property.

 

[TVC]

My cycling log.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Short cycling stories, were they about leprechauns and the like?

 

[wakou]

The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty. I read this before I started cycling... (did it inspire me?? perhaps!) I thought it was a brilliant book.

http://www.othertiger.com/book/9780143036685

Available here for £2.49 hardback, and you don't have to deal with tax-dodging bas***ds

http://www.awesomebooks.com/search/?q=the+memory+of+running&s=no&c=all&x=0&y=0

 

[Candaules]

Bad to the Bone, by James Waddington.

It is very dark, and strange, but definitely about cycling.

 

[Cheddar George]

Another recommendation for "The memory of running".

 

[mistral]

“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.” ​

― ​

Flann O'Brien​

, ​

The Third Policeman​

Perhaps a bit close to home for some cc'ers

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[wakou]

“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.” ​

― ​

Flann O'Brien​

, ​

The Third Policeman​

Perhaps a bit close to home for some cc'ers

​

One of my favourite writers, and a grand aul' bookeen

 

[Globalti]

Thanks, I've ordered the two above.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

The best bike racing novel, bar none, is The Rider by Tim Krabbé.

 

[Fnaar]

The best bike racing novel, bar none, is The Rider by Tim Krabbé.

Hmm... it's OK, but.... to me not that memorable.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

What about this classic work of fiction?

 

[HLaB]

I don't know if its Cycle Fiction but its certainly Science Fiction

Edit: Victor beat me to it by 2 secs (two minds 18,000 miles apart thinking the same thing, its a small world )

 

[ColinJ]

The best bike racing novel, bar none, is The Rider by Tim Krabbé.

A favourite of mine. In fact, it is the one cycling book of mine that I am not going to donate to the CC 'library' because I like to reread it from time to time.

Ben - if you would like to cycle over some time to show off your new bike then I will lend it to you but I would want it back after you had finished with it! (I am not yet well enough to join you on a ride but we could go for a coffee and a chat.)