The Rider by Tim Krabbe


Authors
Tim Krabbe
ISBN
9780747559412
Published
Released
01 / 09 / 2003
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Dimensions
129 x 198 x 10mm

A classic of cycle-racing and a celebration of pain, humour, willpower and energy.

This book describes one 150-kilometer race in 150 pages. In the course of the narrative, we get to know the forceful, bumbling Lebusque, the fine-snared aesthete Barth lemy, the young Turk Reilhan and the mysterious "rider from Cycles Goff".

Krabb battles with and against each of them in turn, failing on the descents, shining on the cols, suffering on the (false) flats. The outcome of the race is, in fact, merely the last stanza of an exciting and too-brief paean to stamina, suffering and the power of humour.

This is not a history of road racing, a hagiography of the European greats or even a factual account of his own amateur cycling career. Instead, Krabb allows us to race with him, inside his skull as it were, during a mythical Tour de Mont Aigoual.
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