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Experience the thrilling sports history of road racing and the engineering breakthroughs that unleashed human mobility. Perfect for your daily commute or next training session, this immersive narrative nonfiction journey transports you to the crowded, coal-choked streets of nineteenth-century...

Explore the thrilling sports history of human endurance, transforming a strange contraption into a global phenomenon. Perfect for your morning commute or weekend ride, this inspiring journey follows the pioneering daredevils who reshaped society and sparked an athletic revolution. Fuel your...

Transform your endurance cycling with science-backed workouts that build massive speed without consuming your busy life. Juggling work, family, and athletic goals often leads to burnout for amateur riders trying to log endless miles. Discover a highly motivating, energetic approach to sports...

A meditative love letter to the sport of cycling, revealing how cycling can shed new light on age-old questions of selfhood, meaning, and purpose. Interweaving cycling, philosophy, and personal narrative, The Art of Cycling provides listeners with a deep understanding of the highs and lows of...

A history and celebration of women's cycling—beginning with its origins as a political statement, beloved pastime, and early feminist act—that shares the stories of notable cyclists and groups around the world More than a century after they first entered the mainstream, bicycles and the...

The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team Education First and one of the sport's most towering figures. Jonathan Vaughters' story is the story of modern cycling. From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown in...

The Secret Race is a definitive look at the world of professional cycling—and the doping issue surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong—by former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle. Over the course of two years...

En 1983, el ciclismo español se encontraba en un coma profundo: la secreta línea de continuidad que llevaba de Trueba a Fuente y Ocaña, pasando por Berrendero, Ruiz, Loroño, Bahamontes o Jiménez, se había roto. Con la retirada del conquense y del asturiano, con la decadencia del legendario...

Bloomsbury presents The Cycling Addiction: Suffering, Speed and the Search for Meaning on Two Wheels, written and read by Phil Cavell 'A tour de force' ANDY McGRATH ‘Offers not just insight into what drives us to ride, but also a vocabulary for understanding when that drive becomes too much’...

Bloomsbury presents The Rider by Tim Krabbé, read by Mark Meadows. At the start of the 137-kilometre Tour de Mont Aigoual, Tim Krabbé glances up from his bike to assess the crowd of spectators. ‘Non-racers,’ he writes. ‘The emptiness of those lives shocks me.’ Immediate and gripping...

Dos ruedas bueno La historia y el misterio de la bicicleta Un retrato revisionista de la gran invención del siglo diecinueve que está transformando el siglo veintiuno. La bicicleta es un vestigio de la era victoriana que parecería desentonar con teléfonos inteligentes y vehículos autónomos...

Bloomsbury presents The Obree Way by Graeme Obree, read by David Monteath ‘A must-read book to make you faster on the bike’ – Cycling Weekly ‘Graeme Obree is genius in the true sense of the word’ - Sir Chris Hoy, multiple Olympic cycling champion A fully updated edition of twice world...

Trading on the sterling reputation that enabled him to survive a widely publicized doping confession, American cyclist “Big George” Hincapie—a record seventeen-time Tour de France participant, Olympian, and key witness in the Lance Armstrong doping case—offers an insightful account of...

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2025 A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025 A Guardian Best Sports Book 2025 A unique memoir from British cycling’s most fascinating competitor. In the summer of 2020, sportswriter David Walsh invited Pippa York began a series of journeys...

The “baddest man on the planet,” undisputed, three-time WWE Champion and current UFC World Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesner, shares his true personal story of determination, domination, and survival in Death Clutch. A raw, no-holds-barred memoir from one of the most popular—and...

The most outspoken and combative coach in NBA history—and one of the most successful, amassing more than 1,175 victories, the sixth best winning record ever—reflects on his life, his career, and his battles on and off the basketball court in this no-holds-barred memoir A man of deep passion...

Das Abenteuer Atlantik sind zwei Reisen mit dem Rennrad und "schmalem Gepäck" entlang der Atlantikküste Europas: von Rotterdam (NL) über Belgien, den Pays du Nord und der Normandie in die Bretagne - Brest (F) (1350 km) ; von Huelva (ES) über die portugiesische Küste, Galicien, Asturien ins Baskenland weiter an der Küste nach Norden wieder in die Bretagne nach Brest (F) (2800 km). Die Bilder entstehen lebhaft im Kopf von den vielen Geschichten und Begegnungen mit den Menschen, den Kulturen und Landschaften.

Un libro imperdibile per tutti gli appassionati di ciclismo. Letto in collaborazione con Luca Gregorio, voce di Eurosport e conduttore sportivo. Nomi come Pantani, Nibali, Chiappucci, Van Impe e Pogačar sono impressi nella memoria collettiva degli appassionati di ciclismo moderno. I loro nomi evocano ricordi e suscitano forti emozioni quando si parla delle grandi salite del Tour de France, del Giro d'Italia e della Vuelta. Sono storie di successi, attacchi riusciti e falliti, coraggio e grandi sforzi dei grandi scalatori degli ultimi tempi.

'Maunder's book is more than just a biography of the rise and fall of a complicated man . . . It is also a critique of the damage that myth-making and the media can do to an athlete; a study of what happens to a demigod when thrown from Mount Olympus' The Times Charly Gaul is a forgotten cycling...

Bloomsbury presents Potholes and Pavements written and read by Laura Laker. Just wonderful – two wheels good, Laura Laker brilliant. Part travel diary, part love poem to Britain's cycle network ... it's difficult not to be inspired by this fabulous book.' Jeremy Vine 'With a passion for both...