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A Century of Cycling - OUT OF PRINT by William Fotheringham
Category: Sport
For more than 100 years the drama, beauty and challenges of the great bike races have aroused passions across Europe, drawing millions of ordinary people to the roadsides of Italy, Belgium, France and Spain to watch the multicoloured spectacle go by. A Century of Cycling traces the history of these epic ...Show more
Cyclopedia: It's All About the Bike by William Fotheringham
Category: Biography
The world of cycling is a veritable treasure trove ready to be plundered and in "Cyclopedia," renowned two-wheeled aficionado, William Fotheringham, delves deep to unearth some 24-carat bike booty. This essential book is a miscellany of facts, figures, interesting snippets and quirky characters from the ...Show more
Cyclopedia: It's All about the Bike by William Fotheringham
Category: Books
If it's on the bike, it's in the book.The world of cycling is one of death-defying feats and obscure mechanical oddities, heroics and geekiness in equal measure. In Cyclopedia, renowned two-wheel aficionado and acclaimed sports writer William Fotheringham delves deep into this world to unearth rare nugg ...Show more
Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi by William Fotheringham
Category: Sport
Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo - champion of champions. The greatest cyclist of the immediate post-war years, he was the first man to win cycling's great double, the Tour de France and Tour of Italy in the same year - and he d ...Show more
Fotheringham's Sporting Pastimes by William Fotheringham
Category: Sports and Hobbies
In this world of highly paid professional sport, "Fotheringham's Sporting Pastimes" is a look at a lighter side of sporting life and focuses on those sports and pastimes which have, and continue to be enjoyed, in a Corinthian spirit of camaraderie, joie de vivre and eccentricity. Included are such delig ...Show more
Fotheringham's Sporting Trivia by William Fotheringham
Category: Sport
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness and disregard of all the rules George Orwell The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing Oscar Wilde Will Fotheringham scoured the globe for this tsunami of triv ...Show more
Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike by FOTHERINGHAM WILLIAM
Category: Sport
What makes a man the greatest of all time? Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to football: quite simply, the best there has ever been. Throughout his professional career Merckx amassed an astonishing 445 victories. Lance Armstrong, by comparison, managed fewer than 100. Mer ...Show more
Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike by William Fotheringham
Category: Sport
What makes a man the greatest of all time? Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to football: quite simply, the best there has ever been. Merckx was a machine. It wasn't just the number of victories (445); it was his remorseless domination that created the legend. He didn't ju ...Show more
Racing Hard by William Fotheringham
Category: Sport
Few British schoolchildren of the seventies can have been as obsessed with the Tour de France as William Fotheringham, who smuggled copies of Miroir du Cyclisme into lessons to read inside his books. He saw the Tour for the first time in 1984, avidly following that year's race on television in the Norma ...Show more
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