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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... Bicycle racing—Fiction. I. Title. PI5881.2I.R26 R4413 2002 819.3'1364—d021 2001056593 First published in the United States by Bloomsbury in 2002 This paperback edition published in 2003 Paperback ISBN-10: 1-58234-290-3 ISBN-I3: 978-1 ...
... Bicycle racing—Fiction. I. Title. PI5881.2I.R26 R4413 2002 819.3'1364—d021 2001056593 First published in the United States by Bloomsbury in 2002 This paperback edition published in 2003 Paperback ISBN-10: 1-58234-290-3 ISBN-I3: 978-1 ...
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... Racing shorts, sweatshirt, suspenders, jersey. I toss my street clothes onto the back seat, look at the folds they make when they land. They'll stay that way until I put them on again, or until an oflicial gathers them together after I ...
... Racing shorts, sweatshirt, suspenders, jersey. I toss my street clothes onto the back seat, look at the folds they make when they land. They'll stay that way until I put them on again, or until an oflicial gathers them together after I ...
Pagina 4
... races. He gets teased a little. 'Allez, le douze.' There's Reilhan in his green jersey, a nineteen-year-old boy ... cycle over to the car and put three figs in my back pocket. Or should I make it four? Or five? Ballast, I never eat more than ...
... races. He gets teased a little. 'Allez, le douze.' There's Reilhan in his green jersey, a nineteen-year-old boy ... cycle over to the car and put three figs in my back pocket. Or should I make it four? Or five? Ballast, I never eat more than ...
Pagina 5
Tim Krabbé. more than two during a race, the others Will just end up ... bike. The bike, of course, is the instrument the person uses to go faster, but its weight ... bicycle — both of which have to be as light as possible — doesn't really ...
Tim Krabbé. more than two during a race, the others Will just end up ... bike. The bike, of course, is the instrument the person uses to go faster, but its weight ... bicycle — both of which have to be as light as possible — doesn't really ...
Pagina 7
Tim Krabbé. hard race, covering I 50 kilometers and five cols. He tells us that there ... races with lots of cols. But he rides for Barthélemy's team, and sticks ... bike into its highest gear, the one I'd wanted to save for the final hour ...
Tim Krabbé. hard race, covering I 50 kilometers and five cols. He tells us that there ... races with lots of cols. But he rides for Barthélemy's team, and sticks ... bike into its highest gear, the one I'd wanted to save for the final hour ...
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Anduze Anquetil attack back wheel Bartali Barthélemy Bédoin bicycle racing bike Boutonnet brake Camprieu Causse Causse Méjean Coppi curve Cycles Goff Daan de Groot descent Despuech downhill drops back dumped everything fields fifteen fig fight figured final find finish line first five flash flat flying forty-three front Gaul gear gone Guillaumet hands he’s hour hundred meters jump kick kilometers kilometers to climb Kléber Krabbé Kuiper lead group lead riders Lebusque legs look back Merckx Meyrueis minutes Mont Aigoual Mont Ventoux mountain never Ottenbros pain pass past peloton Perjuret pull puncture racer rain Reilhan ride rider from Cycles road racing rode saddle Sauveplane shift shout sitting someone sporting career sprint sprinter Stéphan straight suddenly Teissonniere there’s thing thought Tim Krabbé Tour de France Tour de Mont turn Vlaeminck Wim van Est win the Tour wind yellow jersey