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Mar 09, 2018
Thrilling
The only problem with this book is that it's not 200 pages longer. Immensely well-written and outrageously well-researched.
The author's descriptions of the races--stage by stage, sometimes climb by climb--are almost visual in quality.
The book also builds a tapestry in showing the important other players in this drama--Hampsten, Millar, Kochli, Roche, Tapie, to name a few. It illustrates how complex the sport is, how team-oriented, and how those teams are malleable, how loyalties within a team can be severed and how interests between riders on opposing teams can sometimes result in odd alliances.
The author spent a long time sitting down at LeMond's and Hinault's kitchen tables and drawing out the war stories and the thought processes and the emotions behind not just the 1986 Tour, but the 1985 Tour as well, a dramatic tour in its own right, which could have been the subject of its own book.The background material is interesting but not too far afield--no 10-page expositions on Hinault's and LeMond's childhoods.
Anyone interested in cycling MUST read this book. You really will be missing out if you don't.
Mar 01, 2019
Great '30s noir
Classic hard-boiled detective novel. Most fans of that genre have already read it. But if you just like a good novel with '30s-era ambience and a lot of twists and turns, you'll enjoy this.
Feb 24, 2018
Okay, to a great extent
1 of 1 found this helpful I used this to build two bikes and maintenance on a few. Overall, it is very sturdy. However, after what I consider not a lot of use, the metal tube right next to the clamp began to crack. It's the part with probably the most stress and that being the case, the manufacturer should have made that sturdier. Once it started to split, I used a "c" clamp to hold it together, but that didn't get me too far. So I ended up with an otherwise solid stand where everything is intact except the part that actually holds the bike, which is useless. Like most other products these days, it's built for a short amount of good use followed by falling apart and needing replaced.
See the photo, which shows the cracks, one above the clamp and one below.