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THE SERIES OF EVENTS surrounding Floyd Landis’s 2006 Tour de France was as improbable as anything in the history of sports: He showed up nine seconds late for the race’s opening prologue, donned the leader’s yellow jersey twelve days later, and lost his lead only to regain it in remarkable fashion just before the Tour’s final stage into Paris. Winning the Tour should have been the culmination of a life’s dream, but a mere three days later, Landis was accused of using banned performance-enhancing drugs. Released by his team and threatened with the removal of his Tour title, Landis went from winning the most prestigious race of his career to being unfairly labeled as a cheater, a liar, and a doper. Positively False is at once a memoir and a powerful indictment of the unchecked governing bodies of cycling that have compromised theintegrity of the sport as a whole. From leaving the Mennonite community of his youth in order to pursue his passion for cycling, to riding alongside Lance Armstrong for three years — with whom he shared the same work ethic and competitive desire — Floyd Landis details the highs and lows of his career with unabashed honesty. It is this same honesty with which he will clear his name once and for all, as he lays bare the inner workings of the cycling world — a place where athletes are subject to the antiquated science, flawed interpretive protocols, and draconian legal processes of the anti-doping agencies — and finally lays to rest the scandal that threatened to destroy everything he’s worked so hard to achieve….
Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France
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Breaking the mold of traditional bicycling guides, this handbook provides all the tools bicyclists need for multiple day, self-supported bicycle tours in Oregon. All levels of cyclists and adventurers will embrace this guide as their muse to a complete, two-wheeled Oregon experience of micro-brew, yoga, strong coffee, outdoor festivals, dinosaur artifacts, culinary excellence, hiking, fishing, cowboys, pinot noir, and stunning national parks. Each chapter guides bikers through a different trip throughout the Pacific Northwest, steering travelers through every turn, while pointing out attractions of note. Bicycling is an excellent way to have an active vacation and this guidebook offers bicycle adventures all throughout Oregon. From beginners to experts, this book is suitable for all riding levels and budgets. Cycling Sojourner: A Guide to the Best Multi-Day Bicycle Tours in Oregon
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An inside look at the 2003 Tour de France through the eyes of Lance Armstrong’s right-hand rider, Victor Hugo Peña–who also helped Armstrong ride to his unprecedented sixth victory in 2004. Peña served as Armstrong’s domestique, a crucial yet unsung position unique to cycling. The domestique handles a variety of tasks, but his most important is to ride ahead of the team leader, creating a wind tunnel that makes it aerodynamically easier for the “star” to continue pedaling. This is the essence of cycling, and the key to Armstrong’s victories. Now, in revealing the true role of the domestique for the first time, Matt Rendell gives a more vivid and insightful portrayal of professional cycling than ever before.
A Significant Other: Riding the Centenary Tour de France with Lance Armstrong
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One of sport’s toughest ordeals, the three-week Tour de France sees riders pitted against all kinds of terrain and weather in unrelenting competition with their rivals. In this updated edition, Graeme Fife sets the 2009 race in the context of the event’s remarkable history, which began in July 1903. Combining meticulous research with a fast-paced narrative style, he penetrates the mystique of the race and paints a colorful picture of the men whose exploits have given the Tour an enduring universal appeal. Tour de France: The History, The Legend, The Riders
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The Tour de France is one of the most revered, thrilling sporting events in the world, not to mention one of the most physically exhausting. Every year top cyclists from around the globe break speed records and push themselves harder and faster in pursuit of the legendary yellow jersey. Here is the ultimate guide to the competition’s heroes, cheats, controversy, extreme terrain, triumphs, and tragedy—on and off the trail. Now fully revised and updated, this is the essential companion to the awe-inspiring event, with a wealth of tales and trivia drawn from the Tour’s century-long history. Vive le Tour!: Amazing Tales of the Tour de France
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Today the Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick to increase circulation of a floundering Parisian sports newspaper. More than 100 years later the Tour captivates the entire world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men desperate to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? To learn the answer Les Woodland examines the race through the prism of the men who started Tour de France and those who run it now.
Woodland doesn’t leave it that. He also looks at the racers and how racing has changed over the years. Since 1986 Americans have been a dominant force in the Tour, having won 10 editions of the great race. But American cycle racing excellence wasn’t always a given unless one goes back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when, as Woodland puts it, “…for decades the greatest riders in the world were American and only when they had sorted out among themselves who was the best would they bother going to Europe to see if anybody there was worth beating.” With the great depression American bicycle racing suffered a long period of nearly total eclipse before a wonderful rebirth in the 1970s and ’80s. How all this came to be is just one of the fascinating threads within this wonderful book.
Woodland is more than an historian. He is a jolly and witty storyteller and therein lies the book’s charm. As he explores the creation and evolution of the Tour, he never runs out of those strange and beguiling tales that make his books impossible to put down.
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Today the Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick to increase circulation of a floundering Parisian sports newspaper. More than 100 years later the Tour captivates the entire world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men desperate to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? To learn the answer Les Woodland examines the race through the prism of the men who started Tour de France and those who run it now.
Woodland doesn’t leave it that. He also looks at the racers and how racing has changed over the years. Since 1986 Americans have been a dominant force in the Tour, having won 10 editions of the great race. But American cycle racing excellence wasn’t always a given unless one goes back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when, as Woodland puts it, “…for decades the greatest riders in the world were American and only when they had sorted out among themselves who was the best would they bother going to Europe to see if anybody there was worth beating.” With the great depression American bicycle racing suffered a long period of nearly total eclipse before a wonderful rebirth in the 1970s and ’80s. How all this came to be is just one of the fascinating threads within this wonderful book.
Woodland is more than an historian. He is a jolly and witty storyteller and therein lies the book’s charm. As he explores the creation and evolution of the Tour, he never runs out of those strange and beguiling tales that make his books impossible to put down.
Tourmen: The Men Who Made the Tour de France
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A thorough stage-by-stage account of the most contested Tour ever: 1978.
Tour de France: The 75th Anniversary Bicycle Race
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Rupert Guinness has been covering the Tour de France for over 20 years and in that time has watched Australian riders evolve into the collective force they are today. From the pioneering Phil Anderson, who, in the 1980s, set the mark by becoming the first Australian to claim the yellow jersey, to Cadel Evans, Guinness analyses the riders’ fortunes and misfortunes through his knowledge of and relationship with these extraordinary athletes. There are humorous and sadly tragic moments, heroes, and villains, and testing times when everything seems to go wrong. But there are also days of perfect riding, extraordinary scenery, and uplifting successes.
What a Ride: An Aussie Pursuit of the Tour de France
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For every way to ride, there s a bicycle to fit the need. An homage to the beauty of the bike, Cyclepedia showcases the innovations and legacies of bicycle design over the past century. Join longtime bike enthusiast and avid collector Michael Embacher for a tour of 100 bicycles, from the finest racing bikes and high-tech hybrids to the bizarrely specific (such as a bike designed to cycle on ice). Captivating photographs, detailed component lists, and anecdotal information illuminate the details that make each bicycle unique. Also including a foreword by cyclist and designer Paul Smith, Cyclepedia is the ultimate coffee-table book for devotees of the two-wheeled life.
Cyclepedia: A Century of Iconic Bicycle Design
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