Need for the Bike-9781788162692

Need for the Bike

Regular price
£10.99
Sale price
£10.99
Regular price
Sold out
Unit price
per 
Tax included.

Author: Fournel, Paul, Stoekl, Alan, Read, Claire

Cycling

Published on 4 July 2019 by Profile Books Ltd (Pursuit) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages
193 x 145 x 18 | 214g

A TRUE CLASSIC OF CYCLING LITERATURE'Nobody evokes the transformative joy of cycling the way Fournel does here ... magical' - Herbie Sykes'I ride to rest and to tire myself out; I ride to do myself good and to do myself harm'... one of the many cycling paradoxes explored in this unique and delightful book.

'I've never got over this miracle'

Starting with the

childhood joy of learning to ride a bike, Need for the Bike goes on to relate

the agony of climbing, the angst of crashing, and all the other

universal moments and feelings which all cyclists will recognise.

'To get on a bike is

to take possession of the landscape'

The sounds, smells, pains and joys of riding with friends or alone, finding things on the road; getting lost, 're-reading' familiar routes; Paul Fournel's classic comes as close as any book has to an encapsulation of why we all need the bike ...