Chris Sidwells
Autor/a de Bicycle Repair Manual
Sobre l'autor
Chris Sidwells is an author and journalist with extensive technical knowledge of bicycles, gained over many years as a bike-shop owner and a racer of road, track, mountain, and cyclo-cross bikes
Obres de Chris Sidwells
The Cycling Bible: The cyclist’s guide to technical, physical and mental training and bike maintenance (2023) 2 exemplars
Manual de manutenção e reparo de bicicletas 1 exemplars
The Complete Tour de France Records 1 exemplars
Het officiële Tour de France Recordboek 2013 1 exemplars
7 Semanas de Ciclismo para Ficar em Forma 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 30
- Membres
- 366
- Popularitat
- #65,730
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 3
- ISBN
- 86
- Llengües
- 12
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it did exactly what I wanted and more besides. It is written with such an accessible style and with what appears to be a balanced view and a desire to be fair to all. Of course as this is the only book I have read on the subject, so it could be completely off the mark but it certainly didn’t feel like it. This book rattles along at a pace that James Patterson would be proud of and there are mere paragraphs in here that contain stories that could have, and indeed probably have, filled a book of their own. The characters here are larger than life, the descriptions of the racing exciting and there is enough information about the Tour's equipment, tactics, eccentricities and its highs and lows to make me feel confident in talking about the Tour with others who have known and loved it for a lot longer than the 9 days I have!
In conclusion then; this is just a brilliant book, I got full on "just one more chapter"itis and kept reading late into the night. There were moments when I was caught in the drama of the race, moments when I was laughing out loud and, as with the passage describing Tom Simpson’s death on the slopes of Mount Ventoux in 1967, moments when I had to choke back the tears.… (més)