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The Yellow Jersey Club
Edward Pickering
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Description for The Yellow Jersey Club
Paperback. The Yellow Jersey Club contains just twenty-six living members. To become one of this exclusive number requires complete dedication, brutal self-sacrifice and the most extraordinary physical attributes. This book offers insights into the minds of cycling's best ever riders of the past forty years. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGS; WSBX; WSQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 180 x 35. Weight in Grams: 230.
The Yellow Jersey Club contains just twenty-six living members. To become one of this exclusive number requires complete dedication, brutal self-sacrifice and the most extraordinary physical attributes. Yet along with the ability to climb mountains, bomb along time trials and survive all the perils of the road, what really makes a Tour de France champion? Edward Pickering set out on a mission to ask them, and gained some astonishing insights into the minds of cycling's best ever riders of the past forty years, from giants like Greg LeMond and Stephen Roche to more unfamiliar names like Bernard ... Read more
The Yellow Jersey Club contains just twenty-six living members. To become one of this exclusive number requires complete dedication, brutal self-sacrifice and the most extraordinary physical attributes. Yet along with the ability to climb mountains, bomb along time trials and survive all the perils of the road, what really makes a Tour de France champion? Edward Pickering set out on a mission to ask them, and gained some astonishing insights into the minds of cycling's best ever riders of the past forty years, from giants like Greg LeMond and Stephen Roche to more unfamiliar names like Bernard ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Corgi Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552171052
SKU
V9780552171052
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-15
About Edward Pickering
Edward Pickering is a writer and journalist who is editor of Procycling magazine. He was previously deputy editor of Cycle Sport, and has been a regular contributor to Cycling Weekly, Rouleur and The Cycling Anthology. He has also written for the New York Times and Loaded. Edward was shortlisted for Best New Writer at the British ... Read more
Reviews for The Yellow Jersey Club
An insightful, informative and analytical look at those who have stood on the top step in Paris.
Cycling Weekly
Pickering's narratives are cleverly deceptive; it's surprising just how much the author unravels of each winner's character... compulsive reading.
Washing Machine Post
Throughout The Yellow Jersey Club, Pickering asks plenty of pertinent questions ... Read more
Cycling Weekly
Pickering's narratives are cleverly deceptive; it's surprising just how much the author unravels of each winner's character... compulsive reading.
Washing Machine Post
Throughout The Yellow Jersey Club, Pickering asks plenty of pertinent questions ... Read more