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caleb
12-23-2007, 07:03 PM
Looking for a good book to read next week.

What are your favorite cycling reads?
jmewkill
12-23-2007, 07:23 PM
At a minimum:
Peiper
Millar

The guys who worked for a living and didn't have a media empire ghosting them.
don'TreadOnMe
12-23-2007, 07:26 PM
The Beautiful Machine
by Graeme Fife
LegendRider
12-23-2007, 07:26 PM
Obree autobiography.
SadieKate
12-23-2007, 07:30 PM
I just finished French Revolutions (http://www.amazon.com/French-Revolutions-Cycling-Tour-France/dp/0312316127) by Tim Moore. Sheer buffoonery in a way but fun and full of interesting TdF trivia from way back.
CNY rider
12-23-2007, 07:42 PM
The Marco Pantani biography is pretty heavy.
Definitely worth reading, but it's not going to leave you with a smile on your face.
caleb
12-23-2007, 07:46 PM
Anyone read Krabbe's "The Rider"?
Dave Hickey
12-23-2007, 07:49 PM
Major Taylor- by Ritchie... It's a great read....

The Rider is a good read too....
davids
12-23-2007, 07:58 PM
A friend just lent me "Metal Cowboy" by Joe Kurmaskie. So far, all I can say is I like the cover photo...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511YKRNRZ1L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

(As a Judasist (http://forums.thepaceline.net/showpost.php?p=447657&postcount=119) , can I say "lent"?)
SadieKate
12-23-2007, 08:02 PM
Metal Cowboy is a must read! As is the sequel.
rounder
12-23-2007, 08:42 PM
I like Bobke and Tales from the Bike Shop
J.Greene
12-23-2007, 09:13 PM
Hearts of Lions

JG
paczki
12-23-2007, 09:23 PM
Anyone read Krabbe's "The Rider"?

That book is the best -- brilliant! It's much more than a cycling book. Very funny also.
quaintjh
12-23-2007, 09:40 PM
That book is the best -- brilliant! It's much more than a cycling book. Very funny also.
+1
shinomaster
12-23-2007, 09:46 PM
http://archive.salon.com/books/review/2000/06/09/sedaris/
fiamme red
12-23-2007, 09:51 PM
http://www.danenet.org/bcp2006/spike.html