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The Great Road Climbs of the Southern Alps: The Rapha Guide to the Great Road Climbs

Graeme Fife

Rapha Racing Ltd

Giro 100

Sports & Outdoors

Herbie Sykes

Individual Sports

Tom Simpson is British cycling's greatest icon. Fifty years after he conquered the continental sporting scene, he still captivates people around the world. After his dramatic death on Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour de France, amphetamines and alcohol were found in his system, a fact which often dwarfs his pioneering achievements. From a humble upbringing in a Nottinghamshire mining town, Simpson became the first Briton to win the elite men's World Championships and to wear the Tour de France's yellow jersey. He also took victory at Milan Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders and the Tour of Lombardy, three of cycling's most prestigious races. A charismatic and impulsive character, Simpson lived life fast, with a penchant for spectacular racing, sports cars and fanciful dreams. This man of contradictions was both people's champion and pariah, gentleman and rogue. Guided by rare photography of Simpson, this book explores the Briton's feats and complexities through untold stories from those closest to him. 
Main protagonists and interviews: Jan Janssen, Raymond Poulidor, Gianni Motta, Barry Hoban, Emile Daems, Brian Robinson, Vin Denson, Helen Hoban, Joanne Simpson, Henri Duez, Charly Wegelius, Dave Bonner, Billy Holmes, Keith Butler, Pete Ryalls and Professor Greg Whyte OBE.

Tom Simpson: Bird on the Wire

Andy McGrath

The first in the series, Getting Started in Road Cycling is designed to guide you through the beginning of your journey as a cyclist. The book features practical advice from an impressive cast of expert contributors. There's riding tips from Giro d'Italia winner Andy Hampsten and cyclocross star Helen Wyman while expert mechanic Sam Humpheson provides guidance on maintenance. Carefully collated by Guy Andrews and accompanied by the marvellous illustrations of Laura Quick, the advice answers the frequently asked questions of those new to the sport. How to choose a bike? What to wear? How to fix a puncture? What's a chamois pad? This book will be the antidote to much of what may be bewildering and help you out day after day.

Getting Started in Road Cycling: Handbook 1

Andrews, Guy

Maybe you've been riding your bike for a while. You know what's what and are happy to be out for a good few hours. But what might it be like to ride a little bit further? And then a little bit further still? You've watched the Tour de France and daydreamed about riding over those mountains. You've seen people riding their bikes across a whole country or even around the entire globe and you weren't sure if they were just mad or inspirational. Cycling illustrator and writer Jo Burt will gently hold your hand as you venture out on longer rides, he's made the mistakes so you don't have to. Say you want to tackle your first century, do a group ride, cross a mountain range or traverse a continent, this book will point you in the right direction, which is all the way over there. Don't be afraid, just bring some money for snacks.

Longer Rides: Handbook 2

Burt, Jo

Cartes Du Tour

Fornel, Paul

Queens of Pain tells the remarkable and largely unknown tale of women's cycle racing from the 1890's to the early 1990's. From the fin-de-sicle velodromes of North America to the glamour and chaos of the first women's Tour de France, Queens of Pain offers a sweeping panorama of female racing history. Told through the lives of the great champions, its heroines include stuntwomen and speed skaters, young mothers and teenage tearaways, shop assistants and coal-delivery girls. When prejudice and officialdom denied them one stage they found another: from six-day track racing to epic place to place records, from 12-hour time trials to unofficial road races. The greatly expanded women's racing scene of today is the direct legacy of these pioneering riders whose stories form an unbroken thread since the invention of the bicycle.

Queens of Pain

Best, Isabel

Biographies & Memoirs

Was Marco Pantani a god, or a cheat? Was he the greatest climber you've ever seen, or just another doper? Was he the cocksure superstar of Italian cycling that the diamond jewellery and the screaming fans suggested? Or was he the shy kid, troubled but loveable, who struggled with the pressures of fame? Was he to blame for cycling's tarnished reputation, or just another casualty of the sport's dark past? Was he good or bad? Angel or devil? Was he any of the above, or was he everything all at once? If you've ever thought that the great debates in cycling were too often black and white, then this is a book for you. Marco Pastonesi's portrayal of Pantani avoids the extremes, the blacks and the whites, to paint a true picture of the man as he really was - compelling, complicated, and totally unique.

Pantani Was A God

Pastonesi, Marco

Mottram

Bluetrain Publishing Ltd.

Rapha Racing Ltd.

Pantani: Pull Out Prints

Unknown, Author

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