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When Geoff Thomas struggled to play a friendly game of tennis while on holiday in Mallorca in May 2003, he thought little of it. Recently retired as a footballer, he believed it was a sign of ageing and perhaps a pulled muscle. But when the pain wouldn't go away, his wife Julie persuaded him to go to a doctor. He was diagnosed as having leukaemia. Riding Through the Storm focuses on his journey round the Tour de France in the summer of 2005.

The charming and joyful follow-up book from ‘the nation’s taster in chief,’ Felicity Cloake. If there’s one thing that truly unites Britain, from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth, St Ives to St Pancras, it’s an obsession with breakfast. We all have an opinion on the merits of brown sauce versus...

Is running a marathon with your partner a wise idea? What about taking part in a triathlon together? George is about to find out as he and his wife Rachel put their marriage to the test. Now settled into life in Devon with their three children, they try to encourage a more active family lifestyle with camping holidays, family bike rides, hill-walking, and canoe trips. But things rarely go smoothly. Meanwhile, George continues to set himself ridiculous challenges. Having been a complete novice swimmer only a year earlier, he decides to confront his incompetence head-on.

Dirty Feet is a fresh look at the now more than 100-year-old Tour de France. Les Woodland goes back to the blue-collar origins of the race when the father of the Tour, Henri Desgrange, was so bothered by the hygiene of his tough, beloved racers that at the end of each stage he would publish the names of the riders who did not wash after a day of racing on France’s mostly dirt and often muddy roads.

Volume one of The Story of the Tour de France concluded with Bernard Thévenet’s dramatic victory over Eddy Merckx in the 1975 Tour. Volume two opens with super-climber Lucien van Impe’s taking advantage of a course made for the riders with wings. His win was followed by the dominating presence of Bernard Hinault, who became the third rider to win the Tour five times.

Returning home for the first time in 10 years, Sequoia Schmidt sets out to complete a 28-day solo cycle of New Zealand. This will be her first time home since the death of her father and brother in a tragic climbing accident. Changing Gears describes Sequoia's experiences with grief, loss, and recovery, interwoven with adventures on the roads of New Zealand as she returns home to reconnect with Aotearoa and herself.

If you want to know more about bike tours, but you are not ready to go on your own bike touring experience yet, then this book will answer a couple of questions you may have, and, hopefully, it will also show you the way to have a successful bike tour. This guide focuses on everything you need to know about bike touring, but it also gives you information about the things you must do before, during, and after a bike tour.

Endurance athlete Heather Mason takes her bike on the official 20 Vermont Ski Slopes in a self-recounted first-recorded world-record summit attempt. An accomplished athlete; listen along as she describes firsthand the 62 hours that unfolded in late September 2020. With only three hours per mountain and a drive around the entire state of Vermont, this is a must-hear tale of a journey for anyone who has ever thought about pushing their physical extremes.

Except for the two world wars, the Tour has been run annually since that 1903 race, and yearly addendums seem the best way to keep telling the story. So please join us as we go on the 107th trip around La Belle France. Let’s see how those new faces of the 2019 Tour did in 2020.

At the dawn of the 20th century, French newspapers used bicycle races as promotions to build readership. Until 1903 these were one-day events. Looking to deliver a coup de grâce in a vicious circulation war, Henri Desgrange - editor of the Parisian sports magazine L’Auto - took the suggestion of one of his writers to organize a race that would last several days longer than anything else, like the six-day races on the track, but on the road. The race was an electrifying success. Held annually (suspended only during the two World Wars), the Tour grew longer and more complex.

Goin’ Nowhere Fast chronicles the summer of 2019. On May 20th, I set out for a cycling tour from Central Florida to Maine. The essays within this book are what came of the road, the freedom, the solitude. There is much repetition throughout this work. Common themes repeat themselves again and again, making them impossible to forget. It is important to know that each essay was written as a separate piece, a log from each day, a distinct moment in time. On the road, I saw many parallels.

Pélissier, ganador del Tour de 1923, protestaba contra la dureza del reglamento: "Pronto nos colocarán plomo en los bolsillos". El pequeño Robic, ganador del 47, se cargaba de plomo para bajar más rápido. El sufrimiento que impone el Tour es de plomo, pero también lo es el empeño de los ciclistas. ¡Descubre los bastidores del Tour de Francia, sus personajes, giros históricos y sus más célebres anécdotas en este audiolibro!

Un relato humano imprescindible de esfuerzo, sacrificio y gloria de la denominada "gran generación del ciclismo español".

His cheeks are as tender as raw meat on a butcher's block. And those are just the cheeks of his face. As he slumps in the saddle, watching the road disappear into the distance, he aches in parts of his body that he's only just discovering he has. When Mark travels to Ecuador to go hiking and climbing, he discovers a land of dramatic volcanoes rising through the clouds and wide-open horizons rich in history.

Despite never having learned to ride a bike, Jackie Winter has pedalled over 100,000 miles - on the back of a tandem. For almost 40 years, Jackie and her husband Allan have enjoyed cycling in Dorset and Jackie describes many favorite bike rides. Life in Tandem recounts travellers' tales gleaned from a lifetime of cycle touring holidays in the UK. The couple love cycling in the Yorkshire Dales, which is where they headed in 1976, the year of the drought. A few years later, a cycling holiday in the Lake District presented a whole new set of challenges.

Disillusioned with corporate London life and with no previous experience as a long-distance cyclist, Anna decides to clamber atop a beautiful pink bicycle (named Boudica) and set out on an 11,000-mile journey on her own, through each and every state of the USA. Dodging floods, blizzards and electrical storms, she pedals side by side with mustangs of the Wild West, through towering redwood forests, past the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains and on to the volcanos of Hawaii.

A London cycle courier with a taste for adventure, Emily Chappell entered an extraordinary new race - The Transcontinental - in which riders must find their own way, entirely unassisted, across Europe in the shortest time possible. On her second attempt, she won the women's event, covering nearly 4,000 miles in 13 days and 10 hours, sleeping in short bursts wherever exhaustion took her.

Pélissier, ganador del Tour de 1923, protestaba contra la dureza del reglamento: "Pronto nos colocarán plomo en los bolsillos". El pequeño Robic, ganador del 47, se cargaba de plomo para bajar más rápido. El sufrimiento que impone el Tour es de plomo, pero también lo es el empeño de los ciclistas. ¡Descubre los bastidores del Tour de Francia, sus personajes, giros históricos y sus más célebres anécdotas en este audiolibro!

A book like no other, Paul Fournel’s Need for the Bike conducts listeners into a very personal world of communication and connection whose center is the bicycle and where all people and things pass by way of the bike. In compact and suggestive prose, Fournel conveys the experience of cycling - from the initial charm of early outings to the dramas of the devoted cyclist.

Between choosing the right equipment, unfamiliar body positioning, and still needing to be able to run after riding in a race, many athletes feel overwhelmed and don't know where to start with the triathlon bike. Triathlon Bike Foundations is written by a triathlete for triathletes. It will guide athletes in picking the right equipment on any budget and making sure their bikes are set up to be as comfortable as possible.