Okay, so right up front I need to confess this isn’t specifically a cycling book. But, as the name suggests, it is about sport and it does have plenty of references to cycling including none other than Eddy Merckx and his hour record of 1972. Plus chess, there’s quite a lot of chess. The author, David Epstein, is an American journalist who … More BOOK REVIEW: The Sports Gene
“I wish I could have raced in a sandwich-board sign that said ‘I make $166.66/month, so everyone give me break’.” Phil ‘the thrill’ Gaimon is an elite cyclist who has won some races. And lost many more. An accomplished time trialler and climber in his late twenties, the American currently gets paid to ride on … More BOOK REVIEW: Pro Cycling on $10 a Day
If you’ve ridden in a bunch and/or club for more than a month or two, chances are you are already well aware of The Rules, the near-mythical and, at times, scathingly esoteric cycling bible as ordained by The Velominati – self-appointed ‘keepers of the cog’. Well, clearly these guys have a nose for making money … More BOOK REVIEW: The Rules
If, like me, you love reading about cycling almost as much as doing it, you can do far worse than download an ebook I stumbled upon the other day: “Mid life cyclists”. Easy to read, and full of wry moments, I actually thought the co-authors (one a middle aged Northern Beaches boy who married a … More BOOK REVIEW: Mid-Life Cyclists
