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Roadie: The Misunderstood World of the Bike Racer

Roadie: The Misunderstood World of the Bike Racer
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Veteran race announcer and long-time cycling enthusiast Jamie Smith sets out to explain the sport he loves and the roadies who live for it in this light-hearted treatise on bike racing. Finally, a book to explain those people who roll out for a ride dressed in techno-coloured lycra at the crack of dawn on Saturday, and return at sundown with a glow of satisfaction and even stronger tan lines.

Bike racing? If you want to understand the complexities of this sport, you could pore through a small library on the equipment, training, strategy, race formats and lifestyle.

Or you can read Roadie.

The world of bike racing reaches well beyond July’s race for the yellow jersey. Whether you just watch the Tour of know a Roadie racing in a local criterium, this book unlocks the magic and explains the devotion of racing’s faithful participants.

With a keen sense of humour and a lifetime of experience, veteran race announcer Jamie Smith explains every neurotic habit and obsessive practice in this strange and wonderful sport.

You will learn how a Roadie prepares and trains for a race, find out how to identify tactics while standing curbside, discover the importance of drafting and teamwork, decode different race formats such as crits and time trials and come to appreciate the great lengths to which a true Roadie will do to compete for a modest prize.

More and more of us succumb to the allure of a shiny new road bike every year and some of us even entertain the idea of entering a race for the first time. Roadie will make a convert of anyone who harbours even the most remote curiosity about this beautiful, engrossing and extraordinarily tough sport that is bicycle racing.
Softcover; 206 pages; 229mm x 152mm; Black & White Illustrations; Smith, Jamie

 

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