Cycling category: 1003 books
by Luther H. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book contains a vintage guide to cycling. Published at the time when cycling first became popular, this volume offers a fascinating insight into the sport's history and development, containing chapters on such subjects as tricycles, uncommon and unconventional bicycles, the first innovations...
The Self-Propelled Voyager
How the Cycle Revolutionized Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Before the last quarter of the nineteenth century, people who wanted to travel independently either walked or rode horses. Then a newly invented machine changed forever the nature of personal transportation. The cycle—self-propelled bicycles, tricycles, and tandems—allowed almost anyone to travel...
Cycling the Canal de la Garonne
From Bordeaux to Toulouse
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
This guidebook presents a cycle ride along the Canal de la Garonne in the south of France. The 290km route is covered in 7 stages from bustling Bordeaux to the splendid rose city of Toulouse, with a 135km excursion from to Lacanau on the Atlantic coast. Optional side trips explore the countryside...
by Kevin J. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Cyclotourism has recently risen to prominence with growing national media coverage and thousands of participants taking to America’s roadways on two wheels and under their own pedal power.
But the concept is not new. More than a century ago, George B. Thayer took his own first “century,”...
Goggles & Dust
Images from Cycling's Glory Days
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Drawn from the one of the world's finest collections of cycling artifacts, Goggles & Dust collects over 100 stunning photographs from competitive cycling's heyday. Spanning the 1920s and '30s, Goggles & Dust: Images from Cycling's Glory Days celebrates the grit and determination of the bicycle...
Racing Through the Dark
Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
WORLD-CLASS CYCLIST***,*** Tour de France stage winner, and time trial specialist David Millar offers a vivid portrait of his life in professional cycling—including his soul-searing detour into performance-enhancing drugs, his dramatic arrest and two-year ban, and his ultimate decision to return...
Draft Animals
Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While)
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
From the author of the cult favorite Pro Cycling on $10 a Day and Ask a Pro, the story of one man’s quest to realize his childhood dream, and what happened when he actually did it.
Like countless other kids, Phil Gaimon grew up dreaming of being a professional athlete. But unlike countless...
Descent
My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The Award-Winning, International Best-Seller
“I have success, money, women. I’ve been lionized by the public and the press. The world is at my feet. I’ve spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. But in reality, the descent has already begun.”
At age...
The Ascent
Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling’s Golden Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Barry Ryan is European Editor at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and other events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is from Glanworth in County Cork.
Wheelmen
Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
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 record-smashing seven Tours de France after staring down cancer, and in the process became an international...
by Jake Maddox
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Austin, eager to prove himself and win a sports trophy like his older brothers, joins a local cycling club and enters a Tour de France-style bike race. Not only does he have to find a bike, train, and learn the course, but he also has to deal with a bully who wants him out of the club. For Austin, it feels like a race just to get to the starting line!
From Lance to Landis
Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
For eight years, the Tour de France, arguably the world’s most demanding athletic competition, was ruled by two men: Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis. On the surface, they were feature players in one of the great sporting stories of the age–American riders overcoming tremendous odds to dominate...
The Secret Race
Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
“The holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans . . . The book’s power is in the collective details, all strung together in a story that is told with such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity. . . . The Secret Race isn’t just a game changer for the Lance Armstrong myth. It’s...
The Masked Rider
Cycling in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Dysentery, drunken soldiers, and corrupt officials provide the background for Neil Peart's physical and spiritual cycling journey through West Africa. The prolific drummer for the rock band Rush travels through African villages, both large and small, and relates his story through photographs, journal...