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 7
... 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 world shrank to the pain in my chest and the wheel in front of me. And the.
... 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 world shrank to the pain in my chest and the wheel in front of me. And the.
Pagina 11
... shouting: 'Move it, Krabbé!' The real world record for the hour, by the way, belongs to a Frenchman, Meiffret, at 109 kilometers. Over shorter distances, this same man reached speeds of more than two hundred kilometers an hour. All ...
... shouting: 'Move it, Krabbé!' The real world record for the hour, by the way, belongs to a Frenchman, Meiffret, at 109 kilometers. Over shorter distances, this same man reached speeds of more than two hundred kilometers an hour. All ...
Pagina 13
... shout something we can't hear. 'Who the hell goes cycling on a hot day like this?' Five kilometers: Sauveplane escapes. Another idiot. In his yellow-and-white-striped jersey he grinds calmly away from the bunch. He's not really such a ...
... shout something we can't hear. 'Who the hell goes cycling on a hot day like this?' Five kilometers: Sauveplane escapes. Another idiot. In his yellow-and-white-striped jersey he grinds calmly away from the bunch. He's not really such a ...
Pagina 14
... shouts hurrah down to my finest blood vessels, there I go hammering past the pack, past the point rider, out into space. Behind me they're shouting: 'Ho hey, ho hey.' In front of me is Sauveplane. Without touching my gears, right on the ...
... shouts hurrah down to my finest blood vessels, there I go hammering past the pack, past the point rider, out into space. Behind me they're shouting: 'Ho hey, ho hey.' In front of me is Sauveplane. Without touching my gears, right on the ...
Pagina 16
... shouts something. I make out the word 'seconds'. Kilometer 10. The Tour de Mont Aigoual has three lead riders, tolerated by the pack. We pass two villages, receive applause in both. As a journalist, I only once followed a major race ...
... shouts something. I make out the word 'seconds'. Kilometer 10. The Tour de Mont Aigoual has three lead riders, tolerated by the pack. We pass two villages, receive applause in both. As a journalist, I only once followed a major race ...
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