Cycling Book Recommendations

[Ralph Kent]

Any suggestions for a good cycling book read? I've just finished "The History of Cycling in Fifty Bikes" by Tom Ambrose and "Beryl" by Jeremy wilson and really enjoyed both.

 

[Mod-Master]

History of jerseys was enjoyable for me.

 

[7Speed]

Racing through the Dark is good. The second book not so much.

 

[bagpuss]

Round the world on a wheel buy John Foster Fraser . 1896 cycling in a bye gone time . IMHO an epic tale of travel by
three men on bicycles

 

[Midlife]

For light reading on the loo there's All about the bike, and one man and his bike.....

 

[greencat]

Even my local charity shop listed Lance Armstrong's autobiography under fiction...

 

[Joe_Rides]

Couple of suggestions:

- Fat Tyre Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking

- Pre-war cycling diaries of Charlie Chadwick - Vol 1 - 4

- The Golden wheels of Albert Winstanley (plus the later book "Golden Day's Awheel")

- Richard's Bicycle Book (the original edition)

 

[foz]

Domestique by Charly Wegelius is a very good read (at least, I think so!)

 

[Ralph Kent]

Thanks for the suggestions all duly noted. I've ordered "Put Me Back on my Bike" by William Fotheringham.

 

[grahame]

It is more about the history of the Spring Classics than cycling them, but "The Beast, The Emperor and the Milkman" by Harry Pearson is a very entertaining read.