One More Kilometre and We’re in the Showers - Tim Hilton

One More Kilometre and We're in the Showers - это увлекательная социальная и культурная история велосипедного спорта в послевоенной Европе, рассказанная глазами опытного ветерана гонщика. Книга написана с большим литературным и историческим увлечением и исследует популярность велосипеда, его превращение в спорт и то, как велосипед изменил жизнь людей. Автор, 56-летний гонщик и художественный критик, хранит в своем сарае одиннадцать гоночных велосипедов и ни разу в год не проезжает менее

This book is not one you are familiar with? Well here is the basic plot summary for you: An entertaining mix of social and cultural gossip about cycling in post war Europe from the viewpoint of an avid road racer.

Tim Hilton has written this book with fine literary sensibility and interesting historical instincts. One More Kilometer looks at the popularity of bicycles, explores how cycling developed into a true sport, and discusses how the humble means of transport has impacted people lives - things all through the lens of a brave 55 year old road racing cyclist and keen art critic who has eleven racing bicycles in his backyard shed, and all year races more than ten thousand miles on his machine. The book begins in the 50's, when he began cycling and all of its empowering, anti-prejudice style. It progresses through four eras of cycling history, following cycling worldwide and its development as a 'Continental' sporting trend. Along the way, Hilton looks at cyclists' lives, explains the withdrawal and rise of the Grand Tour of France, and touches on the fast world of iron racing, British local forums, cycling to cheer on fun and time honored tradition in British military societies. Throughout, Hilton plays blend historical facts, good anecdotes, personal memories and well informed fascination into a compelling whole. This is a nice, cozy story through worlds old old third wheel sports, taking good honest walks about while reflecting on lesser known cycling personalities such as Huntrods, Conover's places and Lavery's classic times.

Электронная Книга «One More Kilometre and We’re in the Showers» написана автором Tim Hilton в году.

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Язык: Английский

ISBN: 9780007391752

An entertaining social and cultural history of cycling in post-war Europe seen through the eyes of a veteran racing cyclist.Written with great literary and historical relish, One More Kilometre examines the spread of cycling’s popularity, how it developed into a sport and how the bicycle has changed people’s lives – all viewed through the eyes of a seasoned 56-year-old racing cyclist/art critic who keeps eleven racing cycles in his garden shed and who never cycles less than 10,000 miles a year.The book starts with the 1950s, regarded as the golden age of cycling, and when the author, ‘an unhappy communist child’, first discovered cycling and its emancipating powers. Progressing through four decades of cycling social history, the author will examine cycling as a Continental phenomenon, the rise and fall of the Tour de France; the lives of the great ‘trackmen’; cycling in its domestic form, cycling for fun, the ever-popular British cycling clubs – some of which are over one hundred years old and are home to many fellow eccentrics, fanatics and old-timers, like the author’s friend, ‘the Yorkshire junior road race champion of 1954, now living in a caravan, crippled and penniless with his much younger companion a taxidermist – beautiful and cruel’.One More Kilometre is a lovely blend of personal anecdote, serious history and informed obsession, combining gentle humour, personal reminiscence and good history into a beguiling whole.