Bikie : A Love Affair with the Racing Bicycle EPUB
by Charlie Woods
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Bikie lays bare the true heart of cycling. Every grass-roots enthusiast, keen racing man and elite professional has one thing in common: he loves his bike and riding it.
The author pinpoints the source of his love, tracing its development in the individual, how it draws people into a community and then a tradition creating a whole worldwide culture to celebrate that deep affection for what is a technological marvel and transcendent experience.
Great champions, too, are inseparable from their bikes. They merge into them, becoming a composite image, figures of myth.
As well as exerting an emotional hold, cycling, in its famous races, also mounts a living proof of exemplary virtues: courage, perseverance and self-sacrifice gives us, in fact, a glimpse of the higher reaches of the human spirit. There is a sense of this mythical realm in every pedal turn, for once astride a handbuilt lightweight we are put in touch with the greatest riders of all time.
Bikie is the story of one man s passionate involvement, but in its forthright sincerity it goes to the roots of what we all share.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Mainstream Publishing
- Publication Date:22/06/2012
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- ISBN:9781780575155
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Download - Immediately Available
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- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Mainstream Publishing
- Publication Date:22/06/2012
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- ISBN:9781780575155
