Does cycling fiction exist?

[bikepete]

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?

Normally (in the absence of it being spelled out formally somehow) a magazine just gets "first rights" aka first UK serial rights as per:

http://www.ukauthors.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=printpage&artid=7

which means they get to publish it once (and nowadays typically also in a digital edition with the same layout as the print version) but you retain full copyright to your original material and are free to send it elsewhere.

Strictly speaking they retain copyright on any editing and layout work they may have done.

Payment or not shouldn't make a difference...

Sure they wouldn't mind you asking for clarification - if they're like me contributors are hugely appreciated and I very much doubt they'd mind you publishing elsewhere anyway.

 

[Candaules]

I have just remembered this:

It's from the early days of cycling, about the adventures of a shop assistant on his annual holiday. (No aliens, time machines, or space travel.)

 

[Globalti]

Colin, I certainly plan a trip over your way this summer and will definitely get in touch.

Bikepete - thanks for the info, it's as I suspected. Will email Chipps about it.

 

[ColinJ]

Colin, I certainly plan a trip over your way this summer and will definitely get in touch.

With luck, I might be up to a ride by then!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

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

Wha...? I don't even...

It's like the essence of racing distilled into a novel; it captures all the weird stoic masochism, the obsession, the drive that would otherwise be all but incomprehensible to anyone else. I can't imagine anyone who really gets bike racing thinking this is 'not that memorable' or 'OK'.

 

[Fnaar]

Wha...? I don't even...

It's like the essence of racing distilled into a novel; it captures all the weird stoic masochism, the obsession, the drive that would otherwise be all but incomprehensible to anyone else. I can't imagine anyone who really gets bike racing thinking this is 'not that memorable' or 'OK'.

Perhaps it's the racing bit then, for me. I'm not a racer at all, tbh. I enjoy watching it, but ...

 

[byegad]

'Wheels of Chance', HG Wells; 'The Age of the Bicycle', Mirian Webster; and 'It's not about the Bike', Lance (the Cheat) Armstrong. All on my bookshelf under fiction.

 

[Amanda P]

There was CityCycling's Claude Dawes stories (here's one).

I think there was a Sherlock Holmes mystery in which Holmes is pursued by bicycle, but I may have read that in the 1980s Bicycle magazine, rather than it being an original Conan Doyle. EDIT: I'm thinking of The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist - the real thing.

And then there's Yehuda Moon. He's fictional.... isn't he?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Lance Armstrongs entire career

 

[Globalti]

...and most of the rest of professional cycling for that matter.

 

[Arch]

Jerome K Jerome sent his three men (the same ones as went in the boat) on a cycling holiday in Three Men on a Bummel. A bummel is described as a journey that doesn't really go anywhere for any purpose.

It's a good book - if you like Three Men in a Boat, you'll like it, if you've never read Three Men in a Boat, then they are all equally well introduced in Bummel. There's a very funny chapter on what happens when someone who doesn't really know what they are doing tries to service a bike, and lots of the references to cycling are as valid now as they were back then.

 

[classic33]

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 )

Beaten by Rockymountain

It's Not About The Bike.

 

[P.H]

Here are Wings - A novel of Romance and Cycling,
Published 1898 so there's nothing new. Translated from the French and republished in 2008;
http://www.v-cc.org.uk/jpmpf.htm

 

[roadrash]

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

i recently offered this in the classified free section , tis a good read