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 2
... my jersey. I fill my bidon with Evian, rinse my hands and lock the car. The keys I give to Stephan, my spare wheels too. He's driving the support car for my club, the club from Anduze. I wipe my tires clean and climb onto the bike.
... my jersey. I fill my bidon with Evian, rinse my hands and lock the car. The keys I give to Stephan, my spare wheels too. He's driving the support car for my club, the club from Anduze. I wipe my tires clean and climb onto the bike.
Pagina 3
... -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 the giant who was always throwing Chaplin.
... -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 the giant who was always throwing Chaplin.
Pagina 4
... 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 would be using a number twelve sprocket, Bou— tonnet rushed ...
... 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 would be using a number twelve sprocket, Bou— tonnet rushed ...
Pagina 5
... he's not a good racer. People are made up of two parts: a mind and a body. Of the two, the mind, of course, is the rider. That this mind has recourse to two instruments, a body and a bicycle — both of which have to be as light as ...
... he's not a good racer. People are made up of two parts: a mind and a body. Of the two, the mind, of course, is the rider. That this mind has recourse to two instruments, a body and a bicycle — both of which have to be as light as ...
Pagina 9
... he's taken fifty meters, a hundred. He's got a nice style, nothing moving except his legs, his hands resting on top of the brakehoods. The road grows curvy, every once in a while he disappears from sight. The peloton couldn't care less ...
... he's taken fifty meters, a hundred. He's got a nice style, nothing moving except his legs, his hands resting on top of the brakehoods. The road grows curvy, every once in a while he disappears from sight. The peloton couldn't care less ...
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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