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The Year: Reawakening the Legend of Cycling's Hardest Endurance Record
Dave Barter
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Description for The Year: Reawakening the Legend of Cycling's Hardest Endurance Record
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In 1939 British cyclist Tommy Godwin cycled 75,065 miles in a single year. Think about that for a second: it's an average of over 200 miles each day. And it's a mark that still stands after almost eighty years. In The Year, Dave Barter resurrects the legend of the year record - a challenge nearly as old as bicycles themselves - and the cyclists who pushed themselves to establish and break it. Barter uncovers the stories behind these riders who would routinely cycle over a hundred miles ... Read more
In 1939 British cyclist Tommy Godwin cycled 75,065 miles in a single year. Think about that for a second: it's an average of over 200 miles each day. And it's a mark that still stands after almost eighty years. In The Year, Dave Barter resurrects the legend of the year record - a challenge nearly as old as bicycles themselves - and the cyclists who pushed themselves to establish and break it. Barter uncovers the stories behind these riders who would routinely cycle over a hundred miles ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vertebrate Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Sheffield, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910240434
SKU
V9781910240434
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Ref
99-50
About Dave Barter
Dave Barter is the author of the road cycling guidebook Great British Bike Rides, and Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder, a worldwide bestseller on Amazon. He has contributed many articles to Cycle, Cycling Weekly and Cycling Plus and has appeared on BBC One's The One Show. An expert on the life and cycling records of cycling year record holder Tommy Godwin, ... Read more
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