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Books : Uphill Battle: Cycling's Great ClimbersIn association with Amazon.comby: Owen Mulholland  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $21.86 You Save: $8.09 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 796.60922 EAN: 9781931382120 ISBN: 1931382123 Label: VeloPress Manufacturer: VeloPress Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2003-05 Publisher: VeloPress Studio: VeloPress Sales Rank: 663013 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This book, rich in anecdote and history, explores in words and pictures the world of uphill cycling. Recreational cyclists can ride the same roads, compare their own efforts with those of masters like Coppi and Merckx and Armstrong, and come away with an understanding of the heroic feats that made these greats so great. Dozens of photographs add to an engaging look at this amazing sport. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Uphill Battle, Cycling's Great climbersMountains weren't added to the Tour de France until 1905. Tour boss Henri Desgrange added them only because a staffer incessantly hounded him until, finally worn down, Desgrange capitulated. At first, the mountains in the Tour de France were the more modest ascents of the Vosges and Alps. In 1910 the Tour added the giant pyrenean climbs; the Peyresourde, Aspin, Tourmalet and the Aubisque. A year later came the high Alps. The addition of hard climbing transformed the Tour. The men who ... Read More Rating: - Uphill Battle is worth itA good review of cycling's great climbers, this book is a window into many of the great climbing by bike performances. As you read many of the heroic uphill battles that have taken place within cycling's major tours, Mulholland has you on the hill, feeling the rider's pain. Many of these accounts will be unknown to all but the most rapid cycling fan and deserve to be told. While only including major European climbing exploits, this account is a good addition to a cycling library. For a collection ... Read More Rating: - Against GravityOwen Mulholland is known as a writer of cycling history and "Uphill Battle"is a worthwhile addition to the specialized genre of books for bike nuts. While there has been a recent torrent of books on the Tour de France, this book also describes some interesting and exciting stages of the other great stage races, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta in Spain. The book is arranged in chronological fashion as a series of brief biographies of climbing cyclists. The stories really begin in 1905 when ... Read More Rating:  - Mediocre stories, poorly toldThis book reads more like a series of magazine articles than a coherent history. Mulholland has some grammatical quirks - mostly his pronouns get out of whack - making me read many sentences several times to sort out who he's talking about. He is fixated on Franco and torture in Spain; this gets somewhat boring. Other quirks that really made me want to put the book down even though I wanted to know the stories were his repeated parenthetical explanations of things like the fact that ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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