Geoff Thomas's heroic battle to overcome leukaemia, and then take on the toughest sporting challenge: to ride the Tour de France
When Geoff Thomas struggled to play a friendly game of tennis while o……続きを見る
著者:Richard Moore
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2009年11月12日
Fully updated to include the extraordinary scenes at London 2012, where Hoy won two more gold medals to bring his total to six and overtake Sir Steve Redgrave, this is the story of Britain's greates……続きを見る
'There is me trailing home 131st and, for all I know, I might be a top 50 rider if we all started on a level playing field . . . Bollocks to you all. You are a bunch of cheating bastards. At least I……続きを見る
著者:Jack Thurston
出版社: Jack Thurston
発売日: 2014年03月08日
This is the first issue of the Bicycle Reader, a new collection of quality writing about cycling. Two thoughts inspired us to start this collection.
The first is that there is a great deal of brilli……続きを見る
著者:Josie Dew
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2012年08月02日
Following on from the hugely enjoyable A RIDE IN THE NEON SUN, Josie takes us on the second part of her journey through Japan; a country whose keyword is peace, yet spends millions each year on high……続きを見る
Before Bradley Wiggins, there was Sean Yates. Behind Bradley Wiggins, there was Sean Yates.
One of only five Britons to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, Sean Yates burst onto the cyclin……続きを見る
A guidebook to 40 day walks, short treks and mountain bike rides in Peru. Exploring the Inca Trails in the Sacred Valley, the routes are suitable for walkers and riders with a good level of fitness.……続きを見る
Spend every waking minute staring at a computer screen. Throw in some self destructive habits. Stir. Repeat. This weekly routine nearly killed him. In a moment of insanity (clarity?), Dave Conroy qu……続きを見る
著者:R. R. Maassen
出版社: eNet Press Inc.
発売日: 2013年09月30日
After a lifetime of odd jobs and pseudo-careers, it occurs to me I may never find my calling; my destined occupation. So far, my life has been more about discovering the things I don’t want to do fo……続きを見る
Straddling humour, trivia and sport, ‘Notorious’ brings together for the first time one hundred of the most potty sportsmen in history. From boxing to cycling, soccer to baseball, and most sports in……続きを見る
In 2010 Susie Wheeldon and Jamie Vining rolled back into London complete with stings, bites, leathery skin and thighs of steel. With their co-rider, Iain Henderson, they had set out nine months earl……続きを見る
Jill Homer, a newspaper editor in the isolated, soggy hamlet of Juneau, Alaska, has an outlandish ambition: Racing a mountain bike 2,740 miles from Canada to Mexico along the Continental Divide. Her……続きを見る
Out of print for many years, this much sought-after guide is being brought back just in time for the megacity's first summer. Mike Filey has expanded his original book to include areas that are now ……続きを見る
On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police. In his car were the drugs the team needed if they were to have any chance of playing a competitive part in the 1998 Tour de……続きを見る
Why settle for visiting France as an ordinary tourist when you can experience it by bike? If you are looking to add some fun and adventure to an upcoming trip to France, consider adding a weekend of……続きを見る
The first in-depth look at Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, the phenomenal business success built on the back of fraud, and the greatest conspiracy in the history of sports
Lance Armstrong won a re……続きを見る
For 11 years I was a professional cyclist, competing in the hardest and greatest races on Earth. I was in demand from the world's best teams, a well-paid elite athlete. But I never won a race. I was……続きを見る
'One of the most charismatic and flamboyant cyclists in recent history' Daily Telegraph
Laurent Fignon is one of the giants of modern cycling. Twice-winner of the Tour de France in the early eightie……続きを見る
'A master psychologist - cycling's answer to Brian Clough.' MARK CAVENDISH
The inside story of Mark Cavendish's Rainbow Jersey Winning World Title of 2011
Twenty five years ago, British road cycling……続きを見る
著者:Stanley Sprocket
出版社: The Stanley Corporation
発売日: 2013年03月12日
Join Stanley Sprocket for a 5 day cycle ride across France. He cycled from the Pyrenees Mountains to the North Coast and on to Oxford, England, for May Day. Using a simple road map, without a tent o……続きを見る
"I want to die at a hundred years old after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I don't do anything slow, not even breathe. I do everything at a fast cadence: eat fas……続きを見る
The hottest sprinter in the world - Telegraph
Mark Cavendish is the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France's green jersey, the first to wear the iconic rainbow jersey in almost 50 years and……続きを見る
Running two hundred miles from Newcastle to Edinburgh, the Coast and Castles Cycle Route promised to be a journey through millennia of turbulent history and fabulous scenery. It proved to be more th……続きを見る
Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo - champion of champions. The greatest cyclist of the immediate post-war years, he was the……続きを見る
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Cross Country Cyclists to Ever Compete: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you……続きを見る
著者:Zack Furness
出版社: Temple University Press
発売日: 2010年03月12日
Although millions of people in the United States love to ride bicycles for exercise or leisure, statistics show that only 1% of the total U.S. population ride bicycles for transportationーand barely……続きを見る
When ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bike and took to the road, she couldn't even mend a puncture. 12,000 miles and 15 months later, she was home.
Her epic solo journey took he……続きを見る
In A Rough Ride, Paul Kimmage gives a devastatingly frank account of what life is really like in the world of professional cycling. In tracing his mixed fortunes, Kimmage describes not only the grue……続きを見る
With 57 miles of well-tended carriage pathsーskirting some of the most beautiful sights on Mount Desert Island and free of automobile trafficーAcadia National park is a very popular destination amon……続きを見る
著者:Sir Chris Hoy
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2009年10月15日
Fully updated to include Sir Chris Hoy’s incredible, record-breaking golds at London 2012 (making him his country’s greatest ever Olympian), this is the story of a sporting legend in his own words.
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