Ride Britain by Simon Warren
A big, beautiful cycling book, filled with inspirational photographs, but also great content on the rides, including maps, gradient profiles, suggestions for pit stops and local knowledge. Forty routes, all in areas of outstanding beauty, taking in the best climbs, best views and best descents.Praise for the author's 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs:
A must-have for any British cyclist and an essential read for anyone who thinks they know their way around the hills of the British Isles.
This is a truly beautiful book. -- Chris Sidwells, author of Wild Cycling and Really Wild Cycling
Impeccable design and compulsive content . . . phenomenal . . . glorious photography, often colourfully spread across two wide-format pages, each numbered and graded ride is accompanied by a map, a profile that usually resembles the teeth of a tyranosaurus, a summary of the key climbs, the total distance covered and the total vertical distance achieved on completion. -- thewashingmachinepost
Praise for the author's 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs:
Once you've opened Pandora's box you won't be able to show up at your next club run until you've bagged them all.
Praise for the author's 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs:
An almost perfect handbook.
Praise for the author's 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs:
The book does exactly what it says on the tin.
Praise for the author's 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs:
The photos are excellent, the information is well presented and the book is the ideal size - I can see myself referring to 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs for years to come.
Praise for the author's 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs:
100 Greatest Cycling Climbs is one of those books that you always thought existed but didn't. The panoply of UK cycling ephemera is greatly enhanced with its release. Brilliant.
Praise for the author's 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs:
Great little digest of UK climbs, every cycling home should have one.
Impeccable design and compulsive content . . . phenomenal . . . glorious photography, often colourfully spread across two wide-format pages, each numbered and graded ride is accompanied by a map, a profile that usually resembles the teeth of a tyranosaurus, a summary of the key climbs, the total distance covered and the total vertical distance achieved on completion. -- thewashingmachinepost
SIMON WARREN has lived and breathed bikes and cycling for over thirty years and is the author of the bestselling 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs and Another 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs. He's won a few races and competed - and struggled - against the best riders in the UK, but most of all he loves to ride his bike uphill. He spent seven years working as a designer at Cycling Weekly before leaving to broaden his horizons in 2003, although he still regularly contributes reports to the magazine he has read since he was a teenager. He lives with his wife and two children in Sheffield and has appeared on TV on numerous occasions and writes regularly for Cycling Weekly and Cycling Plus. He has had both weekly and monthly columns in the past and also contributes to many blogs. He guides rides, hosts events, gives talks and generally promotes his Greatest Cycling Climbs brand twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
www.100climbs.co.uk
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781472144546 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472144546 |
| Title | Ride Britain |
| Author | Simon Warren |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2020-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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