Recomend me a new cycling book please.

[EltonFrog]

Cycling Books I've enjoyed recently.

It's All About The Bike. Rob Penn

How I Won The Jellow Jumper. Ned Boulting

The Man Who Cycled The World. Mark Beaumont.

Cold Beer and Crocodiles. Roff Smith.

Cycling The Canal Du Midi. Declan Lyons

and the cycling touring guides by Harold Briercliffe


Some new recommendations please, but not autobiographies, by people who are still in their 30's.

 

[EltonFrog]

COME ON! I haven't got all day youse knows.

 

[R_nger]

The Rider - Tim Krabbe
French Revolutions - Tim Moore

 

[StuAff]

Slaying the Badger- Richard Moore

 

[threebikesmcginty]

We Were Young and Carefree - Laurent Fignon

 

[smokeysmoo]

Lots to choose from by this GUY

 

[EltonFrog]

Lots to choose from by this GUY

Yeah, thanks but no.

 

[Hotblack Desiato]

I would recommend 'The Secret Race' by Tyler Hamilton if you can borrow or maybe more appropriately pirate a copy*.

A tale of skulduggery and intrigue in the pro-cycling world that continues to unfold as I type.

A depressing insight into human nature although on the upside it's encouraging that he and others may not get away with it thanks to the efforts of more honest individuals, including the co-author Daniel Coyle who helped him to come clean.

*Nicole Cooke: ''Tyler Hamilton will make more money from his book describing how he cheated than I will make in all my years of honest labour,'' Cooke said. ''Please don't reward people like Hamilton with money … there are many places infinitely more deserving than the filthy hands of Hamilton.

 

[EltonFrog]

I would recommend 'The Secret Race' by Tyler Hamilton if you can borrow or maybe more appropriately pirate a copy*.

A tale of skulduggery and intrigue in the pro-cycling world that continues to unfold as I type.

A depressing insight into human nature although on the upside it's encouraging that he and others may not get away with it thanks to the efforts of more honest individuals, including the co-author Daniel Coyle who helped him to come clean.

*Nicole Cooke: ''Tyler Hamilton will make more money from his book describing how he cheated than I will make in all my years of honest labour,'' Cooke said. ''Please don't reward people like Hamilton with money … there are many places infinitely more deserving than the filthy hands of Hamilton.

I'm intrigued.

 

[User169]

Kings of the Mountains by Matt Rendell is the best cycling book I've read. It's a history of Colombian cycling. If you remember the arrival of the Colombians in the peleton in the 80s, it explains how they got there and to an extent why they largely disappeared.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kings-Mountains-Colombias-Cycling-Changed/dp/1854109111

 

[Minotier]

I know it is a long time since I read it and it may seem dated now but I really enjoyed,
Fat Man on a Roman Road by Tom Vernon. I read it back in the 80's and would like to re read again sometime.
I also love Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome.
Not pure cycling books I know but enjoyable.
Slaying The Badger is a very good book and worth reading any time.

 

[vernon]

(...) Slaying The Badger (...)

Fnaar!

Over here!

 

[dan_bo]

'Dog in a hat' by Bob Roll is a good 'un.

As is Tyler's book. Actually it's pretty much the best sports book i've ever read.

 

[Brains]

Some of Josie Dew's early books were ok, as were books by the headmistress who died a year or two back who's name I have forgotten

 

[swee'pea99]

I recently recommended The Hour by Michael Hutchinson and I still would.