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10%OFFTim Moore - Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy - 9780224100151 - V9780224100151
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Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy

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Description for Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy Paperback. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; WSQ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346.

A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself.

Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back.

Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike with wine corks for brakes, some maps and ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Yellow Jersey
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224100151
SKU
V9780224100151
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Tim Moore
Having ridden the route of the Tour de France in French Revolutions, led a donkey on a 500-mile pilgrimage in Spanish Steps and driven round the worst places in Britain in an Austin Maestro for You Are Awful (But I Like You), Tim Moore can loook back on a towering career in misadventure. Gironimo!, his latest and most ... Read more

Reviews for Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy
A considerable achievement
Duncan Craig
Lonely Planet Traveller
Painfully funny
Tim Dowling
Week
A wonderfully written, extremely funny book... You read Gironimo! with a permanent smile on your face
UK Press Syndication
A superbly funny read
Cycling Weekly
Readers of Moore’s French Revolutions will not be disappointed by this hilariously ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy


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