Bikie: A Love Affair with the Racing Bicycle (Mainstream Sport) - Softcover

Woods, Charlie

3.5

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9781840186574: Bikie: A Love Affair with the Racing Bicycle (Mainstream Sport)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840186577 ISBN 13: 9781840186574

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 2002

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Charlie Woods traces his love of cycling from childhood to adulthood, recalling the challenges and new horizons which served as a rite of passage into manhood. He explores a sport which has been a source of pleasure and comfort to him throughout his life. However, this is much more than one man's homage to cycling. The book also analyzes cycling as a national sport and a pastime intrinsic to British culture and heritage. Today races such as the Tour de France draw huge British audiences, with coverage assured on prime-time TV. Through anecdote and analysis the bike is revealed in Bikie as a constant factor in a rather haphazard life—a source of solace and support with which to ride out every age and season, as well as a national tradition surrounded by history and folklore.

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About the Author:

Charlie Woods was the co-translator of Fausto Coppi: The True Story and has written for Cycling Weekly and Cycle News.

Review:

"Bikie is not just a poignant and very funny autobiography, it is also a beautifully written piece of social history" The Times Literary Supplement

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