2010 is the centenary of the introduction of the Pyrenees into the Tour de France route. The 1910 race was won by the French champion Octave Lapize, who added to the controversy on …
Spanish prize-winning novelist Javier Sanchez takes us on an emotional journey through the prodigious career of Miguel Indurain, the first cyclist to win five straight Tours de …
Dutch sportswriter, Nando Boers, and Pedro Horrillo, a Spanish cyclist riding for the Dutch Rabobank team, conceived the idea at the end of 2008 to correspond regularly via email …
The authoritative book on the Vuelta a Espana. The final three week tour of the cycling calendar often provides the most interesting, and excitingly competitive racing of the …
The long overdue account of the splendid career of a Vin Denson. He began as he ended - a typical English clubman, riding the weekly club time trial and strapping on a saddlebag …
Pedro Delgado's 13-year racing career spanned one of cycling's golden decades. Riding against Hinault and Fignon in their prime in the early 1980s, then later against Roche and …
This is the story of Alf Engers and the pursuit of speed, set against a backdrop of cycling clubs, shop-owners, framebuilders, riders, racers, team managers and officials. It loops …
An elegant history of Continental cycle racing by Dutch sociologist Benjo Maso. He explores the relationship between the newspaper organisers of the races, industry which sponsors …
Of the great champions, Jacques Anquetil, the first to win the Tour de France five times, remains the most mysterious. A prodigy, he burst upon the scene at 18 in the Grand Prix …
