Best cycling adventure book, any ideas?
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mankymitts
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I too enjoyed French Revolutions. However, after reading it I discovered that Tim Moore specialised in writing books where he put himself in challeging situations. With hindsight I feel it was a bit contrived.
There was a similar book called Shadow Cycling The Tour De France, cant remember the author's name. Enjoyed it too.
MM
There was a similar book called Shadow Cycling The Tour De France, cant remember the author's name. Enjoyed it too.
MM
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Penfold
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Reynard wrote:If your into touring with a bit of education thrown in try all Anne Mustoe's books.
Ah, touring is what I want to start to do.
I have this as my home page:
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com
Some of the touring journals on there are simply insperational
This one in particular (Check the Tibet photos)
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=l ... =985&v=5z3
Can you give me a couple of Ms Mustoes titles?
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
- Winston Churchill
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
- Winston Churchill
Log on to:- http://www.annemustoe.co.uk/books.htm
Amazon also has lots of info., on her books.
Amazon also has lots of info., on her books.
Take a look at http://lejogandback.blogspot.com/
A good read, and in a few installments!
Mick F. Cornwall
A good read, and in a few installments!
Mick F. Cornwall
And it was fine, full of a promise of glorious days, a deep blue
sky with dazzling piles of white cloud here and there, as though
celestial haymakers had been piling the swathes of last night's
clouds into cocks for a coming cartage. There were thrushes in
the Richmond Road, and a lark on Putney Heath. The freshness of
dew was in the air; dew or the relics of an overnight shower
glittered on the leaves and grass. Hoopdriver had breakfasted
early by Mrs. Gunn's complaisance. He wheeled his machine up
Putney Hill, and his heart sang within him. Halfway up, a
dissipated-looking black cat rushed home across flile road and
vanished under a gate. All the big red-brick houses behind the
variegated shrubs and trees had their blinds down still, and he
would not have changed places with a soul in any one of them for
a hundred pounds.
He had on his new brown cycling suit--a handsome Norfolk jacket
thing for 30/--and his legs--those martyr legs--were more than
consoled by thick chequered stockings, "thin in the foot, thick
in the leg," for all they had endured. A neat packet of American
cloth behind the saddle contained his change of raiment, and the
bell and the handle-bar and the hubs and lamp, albeit a trifle
freckled by wear, glittered blindingly in the rising sunlight.
And at the top of the hill, after only one unsuccessful attempt,
which, somehow, terminated on the green, Hoopdriver mounted, and
with a stately and cautious restraint in his pace, and a
dignified curvature of path, began his great Cycling Tour along
the Southern Coast.
H.G. Wells - The Wheels of Chance
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Penfold
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Mick F wrote:Take a look at http://lejogandback.blogspot.com/
A good read, and in a few installments!
Mick F. Cornwall
A damn good read Mick F
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
- Winston Churchill
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
- Winston Churchill
Mick F wrote:Take a look at http://lejogandback.blogspot.com/
A good read, and in a few installments!
Mick F. Cornwall
A great read Mick, I'm hooked and eagerly await the next installment.
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Reynard
Anne Mustoe has done......A Bike Ride, Furs,Amber & Cockleshells, Lone Traveller,Two Wheels In The Dust,Cleopatra's Needle. I thimk there are more. Try her website www.annemustoe.co.uk