Need for the Bike

A TRUE CLASSIC OF CYCLING LITERATURE'Nobody evokes the transformative joy of cycling the way Fournel does here ... magical' - Herbie Sykes"e;I ride to rest and to tire myself out; I ride to do myself good and to do myself harm"e;... one of the many cycling paradoxes explored in this unique and delightful book."e;I've never got over this miracle"e; Starting with the childhood joy of learning to ride a bike, Need for the Bike goes on to relate the agony of climbing, the angst of crashing, and all the other universal moments and feelings which all cyclists will recognise."e;To get on a bike is to take possession of the landscape"e; The sounds, smells, pains and joys of riding with friends or alone, finding things on the road; getting lost, "e;re-reading"e; familiar routes; Paul Fournel's classic comes as close as any book has to an encapsulation of why we all need the bike ...