Not a dry history of the sport, The Rider is beloved as a bicycle odyssey, a literary masterpiece that describes in painstaking detail one kilometer race in a mere pages. We are, every inch of the way, inside amateur biker Tim Krabbé's head as his mind churns at . · The “rider” the book follows is one “Tim Krabbé” as, over the course of five hours, he engages in a protracted struggle, mental as much as physical, in the Tour de Mont Aigoual. The race Author: Tom Vanderbilt. · Originally published in Holland in , The Rider went on to sell more than , copies. Brilliantly conceived and written at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative, and, above all, passionate tribute to the art of bicycle road racing. Tim Krabbé begins this story at the very start of the Tour de Mont Aigoual, ready to race his rivals through the mountains of Central www.doorway.run description: First Paperback Edition.
While the principles of the racing Krabbé describes will still be familiar today, it is when the bike itself is referenced that the book shows its age. In a discussion about gears, for example, the choices are between a tooth freewheel, or a 'straight through' - all selected without the help of indexing or STI levers. Tim Krabbé begins this story at the very start of the Tour de Mont Aigoual, ready to race his rivals through the mountains of Central France. Over the course of the pages that follows, Krabbé takes his bike kilometers, and pulls his readers into the life of the sport he loves. Krabbé's narrator is called Tim Krabbé and shares many traits with the author himself. So you'll often see The Rider described as being either autobiographical or a memoir masquerading as a novel.
Originally published in Holland in , The Rider went on to sell more than , copies. Brilliantly conceived and written at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative, and, above all, passionate tribute to the art of bicycle road racing. Tim Krabbé begins this story at the very start of the Tour de Mont Aigoual, ready to race his rivals through the mountains of Central France. Tim Krabbé is a Dutch journalist and author, probably best known for his novel-turned-film The Vanishing. But he’s also an accomplished chess player and a road cyclist. The Rider, first published in , has developed a bit of a cult following among cycling aficionados. It’s easy to see why. 'The Rider is a great read and a great ride. Krabbe's half-day race, delivered kilometer by kilometer onto the page, shows the sport for what it is: painful, exhilarating, tactical, relational, fast, slow, dangerous, consuming, prone to mechanical failure, heroic, futile '.
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