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If you want to learn the basics about mountain biking by an everyday expert, then get this step-by-step guide. In this no-fluff, short, and straight-to-the-point and step-by-step guide, you will discover the tips and tricks on how to mountain bike the right way.

What if we were less reliant on our cars? What if there were safe cycling paths to take us places instead? What if those paths led to the next town, the next village and the countryside beyond? This was the dream of a group of Bristolian idealists in the 1970s when they founded Britain’s National Cycle Network, which now runs to nearly 13,000 miles across the country. Journalist Laura Laker sets off on an odyssey around the UK to see where the NCN began, and where it is now.

With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience, and relative affordability of the bicycle. The earliest two-wheeler, the draisine, arrived in Philadelphia in 1819 and astonished onlookers with the possibility of propelling themselves "like lightning".

Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe share their diaries from three incident-filled Grand Tours, the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. These take listeners behind the scenes and explore the culture and landscape as well as the racing while the ‘Lionel of Flanders’, complete with beer recommendations, does the same for the Classics in Belgium.

For a Yellow Jersey narrates the many remarkable lives of the women's Tour de France. A race which has, in its various incarnations, acted as a microcosm of the women's bike racing scene as a whole. Like the careers of many of its participants, the race itself represents an inspiring story of...

La bicla, la bicicleta, está transformando la ciudad. En esta serie, iniciamos con un reportaje de Juan Pablo Mayorga, periodista especializado en temas ambientales que explora de qué manera el auge de la bicicleta está cambiando los paradigmas urbanos.

Lee Craigie is one of Scotland’s great bike racers, yet she has accomplished much more since retiring. In Other Ways to Win she tells her story of growing up near Glasgow and discovering the freedom of cycling—skipping French lessons and heading off into the Campsie Fells to see just how far she could ride.

This telling of the 2023 Tour de France is an addition to our two-volume The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World, and four supplements.

The biggest annual sports event in the world is the Tour de France. In the wake of its overwhelming popularity, it’s easy to forget that there is much more to cycling than whoever gets to wear the yellow jersey. Cycling is rich with legends and pioneers, and it is their stories which light up this compelling account of the sport. This is the story of British cycling as told through the lives of the people who built it. From the first recorded race in a Paris park in 1868 to the present day, Great British Cycling Legends profiles the true originals.

Sarah Bayaidah is a heartful cyclist from England who has been travelling the world creating heart shaped bicycle routes since 2011. Her debut poetry book features a collection of her poems inspired by her heartful routes. Divided into six parts each chapter takes you on a poetic ride through self sabotage, toxic dating, fear, and eventually towards heartfulness, love and inner peace. If you've ever struggled to follow your heart, or been ashamed of your sensitivity, this book is for you, because the meaning of heartful cycling is really the magic of you.

Conversations Across America is about the father-son journey of a lifetime: a 73-day, 4,600-mile, cross-country bike trip Kari took in 2015 with his 75-year-old dad, Merv, who had early stage Alzheimer’s. Their adventure reminds us of the power of perseverance and adaptability in the face of uncertainty. It’s also a heartwarming example of listening and discovery, including 300 short conversations with people who approached them along the way, providing a rich snapshot of America--especially rural America.

In this "amusing, insightful, and nuanced memoir about building a new relationship in middle age, a tandem bike is both character and metaphor". The bike offers the new couple an ongoing physical challenge and an arena that requires cooperation and negotiation to assemble a new marriage on the detritus of multiple divorces, breakups, and a death.

2019 had a stunning surprise winner in 22-year-old Egan Bernal, the youngest rider to wear the race-leader’s Yellow Jersey in Paris since that jersey was first awarded in 1919, and the third-youngest rider ever to have won the Tour de France.

Il "Cannibale" Eddie Merckx, il più forte di tutti, e il "Pirata" Marco Pantani, un magnifico testardo che ci ha lasciato troppo presto. Beppe Saronni e la perfetta strategia della fucilata di Goodwood, Claudio Chiappucci e l'impresa tutta istinto del Sestrière. L'indisciplinato Peter Sagan e Laurent Fignon, il "Professore". E poi l'irrequietezza dell'enigmatico Gianni Bugno, l'impetuosa forza tranquilla di Miguel Indurain, il fascino di Fabian Cancellara e la spavalderia di Lance Armstrong, al centro dello scandalo più grande della storia del ciclismo.

En 1909 Italia era un país recién hecho. Una de las ideas más rocambolescas para terminar de cuajarlo fue precisamente el Giro, un desfile de vampiros, saltimbanquis, lunáticas, fascistas, partisanos, piratas y caníbales que pasó rodando desde los Alpes hasta Sicilia ante la puerta de millones de italianos. Y los unió alrededor de la épica, la tragedia y la comedia del ciclismo.

Wie sieht eigentlich der Journalisten-Alltag während der drei Wochen in Frankreich aus? Welche logistischen Herausforderungen gilt es zu meistern? Was waren ihre schönsten und schrägsten Erlebnisse mit Fahrern und Teamchefs? Welche Tour war für sie die spannendste und warum? Wie haben sie den Doping-Skandal 1998 erlebt? Diese und viele andere Geschichten erzählen die altgedienten Radsport-Reporter Karsten Migels und Jürgen Löhle mit viel Erfahrung und Humor.

Bellissimo in volo come l'Airone, e come l'Airone inadatto alla terra. Di qui il dramma di Fausto Coppi, la sua scissione, l'essere stato predisposto da una bizzarra natura a vivere una vita da ciclista e non da uomo, con le sue debolezze e le sue passioni. Così, quando fu travolto dalla passione come un uomo qualsiasi, quando incontrò la sfolgorante Giulia, i suoi tifosi e il mondo intero non gli perdonarono quel momento di debolezza.

Milano-Sanremo, Giro d'Italia - indossando la maglia rosa dalla prima all'ultima tappa - Coppa del Mondo, due Mondiali consecutivi, due Alpe d'Huez, due podi al Tour de France, un Giro delle Fiandre. Erano i primi anni Novanta e Gianni Bugno faceva sognare una Nazione intera. A trent'anni dai suoi più grandi successi, Bugno si racconta nella sua prima autobiografia. Lo fa con quello stile, umile e signorile, che lo ha sempre caratterizzato. Una persona di poche parole, divenuta suo malgrado mito.

Den legendariske danske cykelrytter Brian Holm fortæller om sin livslange kærlighed til cykelsporten, og hvordan han opnåede en karriere som en af verdens bedste cykelryttere. Brian Holms cykelhistorie begynder helt tilbage i Amager Cykle Ring, da han var en lille dreng, og fører ham senere til de belgiske brosten og de franske bjerge til Tour de France.

Julia Goodfellow-Smith was a non-cyclist just six weeks before she and her mountain biking friend, Alison, set off on this epic 350 km route around Southern England. Follow Julia’s sometimes bumpy journey from a cycling novice to riding King Alfred’s Way itself. Whether you’re an experienced cycle tourer or rookie like Julia, learn from her mistakes—and her successes—to make your next bikepacking adventure the best possible success.