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| #69508 in Books | Bloomsbury USA | 2003-06-12 | 2003-06-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .31 x.2 x5.17l, | File type: PDF | 160 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Must-Read (for any aspiring cycling racers or "enthusiasts")|By Just Desserts|It's a translation, so the writing isn't silky smooth...also, he's a rider/racer - but that's what makes the insights so profound! It's just one race with the racer's innermost thoughts layered on the agony of the competition. The tech may have changed since this was written, but the strategies an|From The New Yorker|At the start of this chronicle of a single bike race, the author glances up from his gear to assess the crowd of spectators. "Non-racers," he writes. "The emptiness of those lives shocks me." I
Originally published in Holland in 1978, The Rider became an instant cult classic, selling over 100,000 copies. Brilliantly conceived and written at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative, and, above all, passionate tribute to the art of bicycle road racing. Not a dry history of the sport, The Rider is beloved as a bicycle odyssey, a literary masterpiece that describes in painstaking detail one 150-kilometer race in a mere 150 pages. The Ride...
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