BOOKS/MAGAZINES/DVDS
2010 Hincapie A Ride with George Hincapie DVD
- 35 Years & 667,000km: That's a lot of bike riding, which in turn provides lots of fodder for great bike riding tales. Which is exactly what you get here: An 80-minute on-the-bike conversation with George Hincapie, the ultimate plowhorse in the history of American bike racing. Nasty, rainy ...read more
2009 Rouleur Photography Annual
The year was 1987, and the book was Graham Watson's "Kings of the Road". It was pre-Internet and pre-cable TV. For race coverage you could call VeloNews' $0.95/min 1-900 number to get that day's Tour de France results, and if you were feeling really spendy you could part with another dollar per ...read more
2010 Rouleur Magazine
Why is our sport of cycling so deeply captivating? Is it the depth of suffering we feel when we push too far? Is it the fact that what we feel often engages all of our senses and that no ride is ever as memorable as the ones where we suffer worst? Is it the never-ending temptation to overextend ...read more
2010 Rapha Guide to the Great Climbs of the Pyrenees
A torrid affair? We're all for it. Lifelong love? We believe in it with total sincerity. Can they peaceably co-exist? The answer, we think, is yes. Don't you recall that famous photo from Francois Mitterand's funeral, where wife and mistress stood quite near two-abreast next to the casket? ...read more
2009 QBP Catalog, 2 Volumes
Who is QBP? Quality Bicycle Products is the most influential company in the entire bicycle industry. And they're doubly important because many of you have never heard of them. They are, as that old ad said, The Quiet Company. While Trek vs. Specialized, and Shimano vs. SRAM each fight their very ...read more
2010 Competitive Cyclist Canon of Great Cycling Books
Good books about cycling are few and far between. They tend towards "How To…" manuals, "Dummies Guide To…" stuff for newbies, and horribly schlocky semi-autobiographies. It's a shame because we love to ride, and we love to read. We wish there was more. Our beautiful sport deserves ...read more
2010 Velopress A Dog in a Hat, by Joe Parkin
Belgium. BELGIUM, Belgium, Belgium! To a bike-mad American daydreamer, that utterance, Belgium, it arouses skin-tingling romantic visions: Shit-streaked cobbles, machete-like crosswinds, ceaseless overcast and wet and a hundred riders surrounding you who'd sooner stiff-arm you into the gutter than ...read more
2010 MPS The Rider, by Tim Krabbé
The lyricism and narrative richness of The Rider by Tim Krabbé will overwhelm you. In terms of fiction that revolves around bicycle racing, no other book is of consequence. What La Course en Tete is to bike racing movies, The Rider is to literature. It's timeless, it absorbs you completely, and ...read more
2010 Phoenix Press The Death of Marco Pantani, by Matt Rendell
Average age around here was like 15 when Len Bias snorted himself to death 'bout 12 hours after the Boston Celtics took him as #2 pick in the NBA Draft. Bum luck for him for sure. And one small legacy of Bias' death was that -- despite a decade of doing really stupid things at varying moments ...read more
2010 UNP Need for the Bike, by Paul Fournel
Don't let the regrettably goofy cover photo fool you. Need for the Bike by Paul Fournel is possibly the most important product of French cycling since Bernard Hinault. The writing here is gorgeous, even in translation. The book recalls a country doctor who will not anesthetize the young Fournel ...read more
