The Great Bike Race: The Classic, Acclaimed Book That Introduced a Nation to the Tour de France

by Geoffrey Nicholson

Book Overview

"If Alpe d'Huez was a rigorous climb, with its mathematical progression of tight corners and steep inclines, the Izoard is far more awesome, a rocky wilderness at 7,743 feet, which needs only a few bleached skulls at the roadside to complete its sense of desolation."

Geoffrey Nicholson's The Great Bike Race is universally revered by modern cycling critics as the benchmark English-language volume of the sport and has risen to mythical...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612007007
• ISBN13: 9781612007007
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Casemate
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"