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Every year on the last weekend of October the death knell of the cycling season is sounded by the National Hill Climb Championship. It's been won by luminaries like Brian Robinson, Chris Boardman and Malcolm Elliott, and yet the story of the championship is one of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, of amateur cyclists prevailing against the professionals. It's a tale of obsession, pain and asceticism - the key elements in the fight against the insidious grasp of gravity.The violence of the race is set against the beauty of the landscape, from the supernatural past of Pendle Moor to the granite outcrops of Dartmoor, from the glacial High Peak to the bucolic charms of the Cotswolds. It's an esoteric and uniquely British event, a hymn to the clustered contours of this island, sung by the Corinthian exponents of amateur sport. In an era when cycling as a sport has never been more popular, this ideal is more important than ever.A Corinthian Endeavour traces the full history of the Championship event from its inception in 1944 through to 2014, and the incorporation of a Women's Championship from 1998 onwards. It is illustrated with 28b/w and 21 colour photographs.

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CORDEE LTD
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8.31 x 0.75 x 5.91 inches
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1874739765
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978-1874739760
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Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1874739765
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1874739760
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.31 x 0.75 x 5.91 inches

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bob jones

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Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2016

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good overview of English hill climbing

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BringMeMyFix

Ode On A Niche ’n' Gurn

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2016

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Jones has written the definitive history of British hillclimbs, finding and filling a gap on the cycling shelf, one straining under the weight of so much dross. Publishers could use a hillclimb specialist’s touch when it comes to shedding excess baggage, rather than saturating the market with unimaginative regurgitations of stock cycling wisdom and shallow sporting retrospectives. Thankfully this book, much like the characters in it, treads a more idiosyncratic path.

It’s certainly comprehensive. As an exercise in historical research with an anthropological bent, it’s successful to the point of being almost too obsessed with minutiae. This might be a more overt criticism in other contexts, but here it matches the tone of the content. A hillclimber’s autumn is an inner litany of doubts over the smallest details, and Jones shares a carefully chosen series of anecdotes to illustrate these obsessions and the dogmatic but often fragile minds behind them. He also manages to convey the atmosphere of race day, digging deep into the handbook of hyperbolic description, but again, what could be perceived as unforgivable overstatement in another text is perfectly suited to the narrative contained herein. lofty title and all. The experience is repetitive, similar for all involved from national champion to lanterne rouge, and to keep it entertaining involves some abstraction and poetic licence, tools the writer is more than capable of using for effect.

My only criticism is more editorial than stylistic. I read this book in a day during a few sittings, and I think this highlighted certain issues that were missed, or could at least have been moderated. If I’d chosen to read this as a dip-in dip-out affair, there would have been no complaints. It’s a sprawling project, one the author has tackled with intelligence and tenancity, but as a whole it suffers from too much detail – not the minutiae mentioned before, but repetition of this minutiae. There were too many occasions where I was given a snippet of information about a particular climb or rider and thought, ‘yes, I know that already, you told me a few chapters ago; and a few before that.’ As the book so adeptly illustrates, amateur cycling is niche, and hillclimbing is nicher. It’s a blip on the sporting calendar and a stripped down affair, brief in duration, blinkered in action. I was left thinking how much a tighter edit would have helped the narrative hurtle towards the finish. The tone is rendered more meandering by this lack of ruthlessness, but perhaps that accentuates its British quirkiness. So my advice would be to take a more leisurely approach to reading it. Short steep bursts.

The writer’s covering new ground here. He’s taken a challenging subject and set the standard for all to try and beat. Anyone who tries is going to have to suffer horribly in the process. Jones’s name is on the trophy, and his record will stand for years to come. Don’t waste your cash on glossy bandwagon stuff. Buy this instead.

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simon r bromfield

An enriching read that will appeal to all cyclists.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2015

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Well done Paul Jones.It takes a brave soul to tackle a subject so niche to most ardent cyclists let alone a greater reading audience.I took this book as a holiday companion to Turkey and I have to say to it has been a real joy to read from start to finish.Very well researched with an array of rider interviews including Vic Clark three times winner in the 40's, there are some great B/W photo's from the early years some which illustrate the size of crowds banked up by roadsides in these natural amphitheaters.Some sadness is attached to the book that relates the fragility of us all and how 'living in the moment' on a hill climb really is spiritual experience that is hard to quantify.

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NickCS

My favourite book on cycling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2016

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This is my favourite book on cycling, and I have read many. Painstakingly and lovingly researched, the book takes us through the history of the National Hill Climb championships, looking at the great riders and the classic hills. Jones writes extremely well, and conveys through his words the atmosphere of the event and the characters of the protagonists. There is much humour, and a real warmth for those he describes. I wish that I had written something like this.

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AW Baird

Hard core tales told the right way

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2015

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Ok so it's a pretty niche segment within everything on two wheels but the hillclimb stands out as a living, lung-busting monument to club cycling heritage. Paul Jones captures this perfectly. What could have been a plod through the record books is instead a vivid series of inter-linked tales, all told in a readable but idiosyncratic style. But don't slump too low in the armchair. There's plenty of hills out there.

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Dave

Well written book about cycle hill-climbing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 13, 2016

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A fantastically well written good about a very very niche subject. Paul Jones has a fabulous command of the English language and some of his writing made me laugh out loud, especially as cycle hill-climbing is to most people, a pretty dry subject. It's certainly well researched and this shows through.

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