Cycling History

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    • London to Edinburgh: 11 Days, 2 Wheels and 1 Ancient Highway
    • By: Steve Silk
    • Narrated by: Steve Silk
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • In 1921, Britain’s most illustrious highway, the Great North Road, ceased to exist - on paper at least. Stretching from London to Edinburgh, the old road was largely replaced by the A1 as the era of the motor car took hold. A hundred years later, Steve Silk sets off on an adventure....

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    • A Round the World Bicycle Adventure
    • By: Barbara Savage
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles from Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed....

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    • 2020: The Tour During COVID-19; Better Late than Never: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World
    • By: Bill McGann, Carol McGann
    • Narrated by: David L. Stanley
    • Series: The Story of the Tour de France
    • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
    • Release date: 13-01-21
    • Language: English
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    • Except for the two world wars, the Tour has been run annually since that 1903 race, and yearly addendums seem the best way to keep telling the story. So please join us as we go on the 107th trip around La Belle France. Let’s see how those new faces of the 2019 Tour did in 2020....

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    • Greg Lemond, Laurent Fignon, and the Epic Tour de France of 1989
    • By: Nige Tassell
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • The gripping story of the greatest race in cycling history, when Greg LeMond cinched victory by a mere eight seconds....

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    • The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession
    • By: Ned Boulting
    • Narrated by: Ned Boulting
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film featuring a stage of the Tour de France from 1923, he set about learning everything he could about it - taking him on an intriguing journey that encompasses travelogue, history and detective story....

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    • The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races
    • By: Peter Cossins
    • Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Peter Cossins tells the awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary 'classic' races in world cycling....

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    • The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby
    • By: Carlton Kirby
    • Narrated by: Carlton Kirby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Eurosport’s legendary commentator Carlton Kirby takes us all on a tour of the professional cycling race year. A companion title to his bestselling Magic Spanner, this witty book takes fans into cycling's less familiar, often wonderfully bizarre corners....

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    • My History-Making Tour de France
    • By: Mark Cavendish
    • Narrated by: Mark Cavendish
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • Deep down, Mark Cavendish thought he was finished. After illness, setbacks and clinical depression, the once fastest man in the world had been written off by most....

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    • A Bone-Shaking Tour Through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands
    • By: Harry Pearson
    • Narrated by: Harry Pearson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Every nation shapes sport to test the character traits it most admires. Committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders....

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    • Engineering for Change
    • By: William Butler-Adams, Dan Davies
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Lightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn't the only folding bicycle—or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its marvelous design (virtually unchanged over decades) and the particular joy of riding it....

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    • A Complete History of Cycle Road Racing
    • By: Chris Sidwells
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The Call of the Road reveals the epic battles of all of the racing seasons since the first Tour de France, looking beyond the results to see the drama....

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    • The Tour of the Battlefields 1919 – Cycling's Toughest-Ever Stage Race
    • By: Tom Isitt
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The Circuit des Champs de Bataille (the Tour of the Battlefields) was held in 1919, less than six months after the end of the First World War. It covered 2,000 kilometres and was raced in appalling conditions across the battlefields of the Western Front, otherwise known as the Zone Rouge....

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    • How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels
    • By: Hannah Ross
    • Narrated by: Lucy Scott
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Hannah Ross introduces us to the women who are part of the rich and varied history of cycling. A gloriously celebratory audiobook, for anyone who would rather pedal the streets than pound them, and those who are curious about life on a bike....

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    • The Tale of the First Tour de France
    • By: Peter Cossins
    • Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating, the first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair....

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    • Reawakening the Legend of Cycling's Hardest Endurance Record
    • By: Dave Barter
    • Narrated by: Saethon Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In 1939 British cyclist Tommy Godwin cycled 75,065 miles in a single year. Think about that for a second: it’s an average of over 200 miles each day. And it’s a mark that still stands after almost 80 years....

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    • Bracia Dawid Andres i Hubert Kisiński w podróży po największej rzece świata [Brothers Dawid Andres and Hubert Kisiński on a Journey Through the World's Largest River]
    • By: Piotr Chmieliński
    • Narrated by: Adrian Chimiak
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-20
    • Language: polish
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Polish: This is a story about the journey of two brothers who travelled through the largest river in the world on...bikes. But not ordinary bikes - they were "Amazonian” bikes....

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    • A Cultural History
    • By: Christopher S. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Scollin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present....

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