Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy - Softcover

Moore, Tim

 
9780224100151: Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0224100157 ISBN 13: 9780224100151
Verlag: Yellow Jersey, 2015

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A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself.

Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back.

Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike with wine corks for brakes, some maps and an alarming period outfit topped off with a pair of blue-lensed welding goggles.

From the Alps to the Adriatic the pair relive the bike race in all its misery and glory, on an adventure that is by turns bold, beautiful and recklessly incompetent.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Moore’s writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of Gironimo!, French Revolutions, Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps, Nul Points, I Believe In Yesterday and You Are Awful (But I Like You). He lives in London.

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Verlag
Yellow Jersey
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0224100157
ISBN 13 
9780224100151
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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