The RiderBloomsbury Publishing USA, 16 aug 2018 - 160 pagina's The instant cult classic about biking, road racing, and the bicyclists who love their sport. Originally published in Holland in 1978, The Rider went on to sell more than 100,000 copies. Brilliantly conceived and written at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative, and, above all, passionate tribute to the art of bicycle road racing. Tim Krabbé begins this story at the very start of the Tour de Mont Aigoual, ready to race his rivals through the mountains of Central France. Over the course of the 150 pages that follows, Krabbé takes his bike 150 kilometers, and pulls his readers into the life of the sport he loves. The Rider is beloved as a bicycle odyssey, a literary masterpiece, and the ultimate book for bike lovers as well as the arm-chair sports enthusiast. |
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Pagina 4
... Tour de France and he'd still have the face of a bad rider. He's talking to Boutonnet, a slim, handsome fellow of thirty with a mean look in his eye. At the start of the season, when the papers reported that Merckx, Maertens and Thurau ...
... Tour de France and he'd still have the face of a bad rider. He's talking to Boutonnet, a slim, handsome fellow of thirty with a mean look in his eye. At the start of the season, when the papers reported that Merckx, Maertens and Thurau ...
Pagina 5
... Tour de France, used to take his water bottle out of its holder before every climb and stick it in the baCk pocket of his jersey. Ab Geldermans, his Dutch lieutenant, watched him do that for years, until finally he couldn't stand it any ...
... Tour de France, used to take his water bottle out of its holder before every climb and stick it in the baCk pocket of his jersey. Ab Geldermans, his Dutch lieutenant, watched him do that for years, until finally he couldn't stand it any ...
Pagina 6
... Tour. Riviere filled his tires with helium. Poulain's wheels collapsed beneath him. If they'd forbidden Anquetil to put his bidon in his back pocket, he would never have won the Tour de France. I eat one fig and put four in my back ...
... Tour. Riviere filled his tires with helium. Poulain's wheels collapsed beneath him. If they'd forbidden Anquetil to put his bidon in his back pocket, he would never have won the Tour de France. I eat one fig and put four in my back ...
Pagina 12
... Tour de France 1951. Eleventh stage: Brive—Agen, I77 kilometers. A level stage, part of the foreplay to the Tour. And talk about the equalizing effect of the slipstream. After thirty-four kilometers, Hugo Koblet of Switzerland escaped ...
... Tour de France 1951. Eleventh stage: Brive—Agen, I77 kilometers. A level stage, part of the foreplay to the Tour. And talk about the equalizing effect of the slipstream. After thirty-four kilometers, Hugo Koblet of Switzerland escaped ...
Pagina 16
... Tour de Mont Aigoual has three lead riders, tolerated by the pack. We pass two villages, receive applause in both ... France and listening to Radio Brussels! The only riders I saw up close during the seven hours of that race were ...
... Tour de Mont Aigoual has three lead riders, tolerated by the pack. We pass two villages, receive applause in both ... France and listening to Radio Brussels! The only riders I saw up close during the seven hours of that race were ...
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