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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-02-2008 17:25
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Two things. firstly, as chuckie put it:
chuckie wrote:
has anyone read ''tour de life''??
Secondly, I'd love a few good cycling books. Especially of two types
1. Behind the scenes type
2. Historical narrative type. just telling the story of past races, the more detailed the better.
But I don't know of any good ones. Any suggestions?
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| mrlol |
Posted on 10-02-2008 17:49
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issoisso wrote:
2. Historical narrative type. just telling the story of past races, the more detailed the better.
there's one in Dutch from Mart Smeets about the breakaway in the tour that won with 30 minutes or so  the whole book is about that break and what happends, mostly about the Dutch rider. Oh, and they allso tell something about the dope they all took  I loved that book. |
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| dave92 |
Posted on 10-02-2008 18:01
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how much detail did the book actually go into? must have been a bunch.
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| mrlol |
Posted on 10-02-2008 18:04
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cant exactly remeber. half the book was some kinda live report from the stage, and the other half was about a reunion from the actual riders because it was 10 or 20 or 25 years after it.
one thing I do remember is that the Tour's organizers tried to get the pack to work by offering money to teams if they would chase, but they didnt
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 10-02-2008 18:10
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Actually, there's quite a lot good books in Danish, written by Jørgen Leth. Also, there's one very detailed book about doping in cycling, written by Lars Werge, a Danish journalist. I don't know if they have been translated to English, though -- I doubt it.
"I don't care", I hear you say. Well, I haven't really ready any, but if you want a good laugh then you seriously need to look at this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positively-False-Real-Story-France/dp/1416950230/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202666918&sr=1-24
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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-02-2008 18:15
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CrueTrue wrote:
Actually, there's quite a lot good books in Danish, written by Jørgen Leth. Also, there's one very detailed book about doping in cycling, written by Lars Werge, a Danish journalist. I don't know if they have been translated to English, though -- I doubt it.
"I don't care", I hear you say.
I don't care. As I said, I want something I can read and preferably that falls into one of the two types I mentioned above
CrueTrue wrote:
Well, I haven't really ready any, but if you want a good laugh then you seriously need to look at this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positively-False-Real-Story-France/dp/1416950230/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202666918&sr=1-24
If I was an editor i'd make sure there was an "accidental misprint" and all the copies of that came out with just the 8 first letters of the title
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| Marginalo |
Posted on 10-02-2008 19:01
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There's a yearbook comin' out by Bernard Callens, a Belgian. It's said to be quite complete as a yearbook. If you feel like trying one, this could very well be an opportunity.  |
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 10-02-2008 21:35
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Posotively False
Tour De Life
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| chuckie |
Posted on 10-02-2008 21:39
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Levi4life wrote:
Posotively False
Tour De Life
Could you tell me a bit more about it,please. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 10-02-2008 21:45
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chuckie wrote:
Levi4life wrote:
Posotively False
Tour De Life
Could you tell me a bit more about it,please.
If you mean "Positively False", check the link CrueTrue posted above
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| chuckie |
Posted on 10-02-2008 22:00
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issoisso wrote:
chuckie wrote:
Levi4life wrote:
Posotively False
Tour De Life
Could you tell me a bit more about it,please.
If you mean "Positively False", check the link CrueTrue posted above
Sorry,should have made it clear...........Tour de Life...Saul Raisins book |
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