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 1
... gear out of the car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafés. Non-racers. The ... gears: he still has to decide which ones to use. There are four cols today, no one knows exactly how steep. I do: I ...
... gear out of the car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafés. Non-racers. The ... gears: he still has to decide which ones to use. There are four cols today, no one knows exactly how steep. I do: I ...
Pagina 2
... gear. 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 ...
... gear. 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 ...
Pagina 3
... gears you using?' 'Fourteen—fifteen-seventeen-eighteen-nineteen-twenty.' 'Oh. I've got thirteen eighteen.' Lebusque is forty-two. He's big and hulking, easily the strongest man I've ever found myself within arm's reach of. He looks like ...
... gears you using?' 'Fourteen—fifteen-seventeen-eighteen-nineteen-twenty.' 'Oh. I've got thirteen eighteen.' Lebusque is forty-two. He's big and hulking, easily the strongest man I've ever found myself within arm's reach of. He looks like ...
Pagina 7
... gear, the one I'd wanted to save for the final hour. The road narrowed. Shouts, curses, scraping, the cracking of spokes. A curve, a rise, we must have been flying up a dyke. In a flash I saw a rider lying crumpled against a post. The ...
... gear, the one I'd wanted to save for the final hour. The road narrowed. Shouts, curses, scraping, the cracking of spokes. A curve, a rise, we must have been flying up a dyke. In a flash I saw a rider lying crumpled against a post. The ...
Pagina 9
... gear. My lungs unfold, the airyof the canyon blows through my hair, the smell ofbalsam from other legs spatters of their spokes and into my nostrils. I slide in among the wheels, back and forth, in the continuously shifting braid of the ...
... gear. My lungs unfold, the airyof the canyon blows through my hair, the smell ofbalsam from other legs spatters of their spokes and into my nostrils. I slide in among the wheels, back and forth, in the continuously shifting braid of the ...
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