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Why would a man publish a picture of himself in the shower? Because this isn't an ordinary shower. It's one of the showers in which riders wash away the blood, grime and exhaustion at the end of Paris-Roubaix.
I've been a writer ever since my mother told me it was no fit job for a grown man. That, of course, was all the incentive I needed and I joined the staff of Cycling in its greatest days. And I've carried on writing ever since, a job I recommend because it rarely demands going out in the rain for hours. Unlike cycling, where it seems to happen an awful lot.
I've spent all my life unearthing strange stories and personalities behind the world's greatest and oddest sport. It's been a huge pleasure.
People seem to expect this sort of thing, so... I'm French, I live near Toulouse, I never much troubled judges at the end of road races beyond making them stand around in the cold when they wanted to go home, and I have thinning hair.
I've been a writer ever since my mother told me it was no fit job for a grown man. That, of course, was all the incentive I needed and I joined the staff of Cycling in its greatest days. And I've carried on writing ever since, a job I recommend because it rarely demands going out in the rain for hours. Unlike cycling, where it seems to happen an awful lot.
I've spent all my life unearthing strange stories and personalities behind the world's greatest and oddest sport. It's been a huge pleasure.
People seem to expect this sort of thing, so... I'm French, I live near Toulouse, I never much troubled judges at the end of road races beyond making them stand around in the cold when they wanted to go home, and I have thinning hair.
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If ever a country were made for seeing by bicycle, it's England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unsignposted road, unsignposted lane, castle phone, first lane right, road swings right, ride through the village, riding days Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ordnance Survey, National Trust, Isle of Wight, Long Mynd, New Forest, King's Lynn, British Rail, Forest of Dean, Rievaulx Abbey, Holy Island, Old Bolingbroke, Park End, English Heritage, Garden of England, Lake District, Solway Firth, Buckler's Hard, Capability Brown, Castle Howard, Civil War, Corfe Castle, Craven Arms, Hard Knott Pass, Horsted Keynes, Northern Ireland New!
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If ever a country were made for seeing by bicycle, it's England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unsignposted road, unsignposted lane, castle phone, first lane right, road swings right, ride through the village, riding days Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ordnance Survey, National Trust, Isle of Wight, Long Mynd, New Forest, King's Lynn, British Rail, Forest of Dean, Rievaulx Abbey, Holy Island, Old Bolingbroke, Park End, English Heritage, Garden of England, Lake District, Solway Firth, Buckler's Hard, Capability Brown, Castle Howard, Civil War, Corfe Castle, Craven Arms, Hard Knott Pass, Horsted Keynes, Northern Ireland New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Guide to the New Forest (AA / OS leisure guides) on page 53, and page 90
- The Lake District (Magic & Mystery) by Lucinda Avid W. Hawksley on page 109, and page 111
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray on page 43
- Bicycling the Pacific Coast by Tom Kirkendall in Back Matter
- Europe by Bike: 18 Tours Geared for Discovery by Karen Whitehill in Back Matter
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