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 6
... wind at their backs (it sometimes took years for them to get back home). Boutonnet uses a twelve. Coppi had himself carried up the steps of his hotel after every stage of the Tour. Riviere filled his tires with helium. Poulain's wheels ...
... wind at their backs (it sometimes took years for them to get back home). Boutonnet uses a twelve. Coppi had himself carried up the steps of his hotel after every stage of the Tour. Riviere filled his tires with helium. Poulain's wheels ...
Pagina 8
Tim Krabbé. chest and the wheel in front of me. And the wind. That lasted for a few minutes. I passed no one, no one passed me; only by sprinting as hard as I could was I able to stick to the wheel in front of me. When the pace became ...
Tim Krabbé. chest and the wheel in front of me. And the wind. That lasted for a few minutes. I passed no one, no one passed me; only by sprinting as hard as I could was I able to stick to the wheel in front of me. When the pace became ...
Pagina 11
... wind, race number 204, onJune I, 1975. For 120 kilometers, a pack of 120 riders stuck together. Up front the cracks drove themselves into the ground to keep up an average of 48 kilometers an hour; at the back the gimps were engrossed in ...
... wind, race number 204, onJune I, 1975. For 120 kilometers, a pack of 120 riders stuck together. Up front the cracks drove themselves into the ground to keep up an average of 48 kilometers an hour; at the back the gimps were engrossed in ...
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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