Cycling related book suggestions

[bikinchris]

I like history, so I am currently reading "Roads were not built for cars."

[callt5]

Funny, I was talking to a friend today about the Gino Bartali book, Road To Valor.
I am looking forward to reading it.

I can recommend "Tour de France, The History, the Legend, the Riders"
by Graeme Fife. Each chapter is about one of the famous Cols and a story related to that Col from a specific race.

I read it before I had a chance to ride some of those mountains. Definitely time for a second read.

[soulspinner]

I will add another Half man half bike (Eddy) and I recently read the biography of Anquetil.... the guy lived an interesting life...............

[martl]

i can recommend Matt Seaton "the escape artist"
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/apr/06/biography1

and Paul Kimmage "rough Ride"

Peter Winnens books are really good, but i don't know whether they've been translated yet. if not, they should be. That man could ride *and* write.

[gmonster]

I just ordered Red Kite Prayer Patrick Brady's Book to enjoy...

http://redkiteprayer.com/store/#!/Wh...tegory=7195148

"Let's be honest, there are plenty of books on cycling. Of them, however, very few speak to the intersection between cycling and the human condition. But that's only some of what this book does. It indulges our love of riding, why we can't seem to give it up, even as life encroaches. It also speaks to our fetish for the bike itself, and why the suffering is its own school, one from which we will never graduate."

[Sean Mac]

I am buried in snow in Buffalo. My plan for the day - after I shovel the snow off of my porch roof - is to read Patrick Brady's book.

[Hawker]

Originally Posted by bjf

Ralph Hurne, The Yellow Jersey. It's a novel, but one of my favorite cycling stories.

Excellent.

Also, Heft on Wheels by Mike Magnuson, The Happiness of Pursuit by Davis Phinney and Slaying the Badger by Richard Moore