Fiction about bicycling
06-24-23, 07:29 PM
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Fiction about bicycling
Anyone read any good books that have bicycling as part of it? While there are numerous non-fiction travelogues about bike backpacking, I'm wondering about attempts at fantasy or some sort of fiction incorporating bicycling.
06-24-23, 08:06 PM
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The Rider, by Tim Krabbe.
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06-25-23, 01:09 PM
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A simple Google search would have gotten you started. How much effort did you put into answering your own question?
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These are not fiction, but:
Where the Pavement Ends Erika Warmbrumm
Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle Dervla Murphy
Where the Pavement Ends Erika Warmbrumm
Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle Dervla Murphy
06-25-23, 03:06 PM
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Do a search here on the forum for LarrySellerz, I think he’s right up there with Carl Hiaasen for entertaining fiction.
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Also see many of the posts in threads about disc brakes, tubeless tires, electronic shifting, and assploding carbon fiber. Plenty of fiction in those threads.
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Adlai,
Sorry for the jokes. Not a book, but have you seen the 1979 film Breaking Away? Excellent movie about growing up, with cycling as the central metaphor.
Sorry for the jokes. Not a book, but have you seen the 1979 film Breaking Away? Excellent movie about growing up, with cycling as the central metaphor.
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Tell your Personal Bicycle Journey - Fact/Fiction/Fantasy
I know it comes in bit and pieces and goes randomly everywhere.
if not = there should be. Just not in A+S
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The Wheels of Chance is an early comic novel by H. G. Wells about an August 1895 cycling holiday, somewhat in the style of Three Men in a Boat.
Editing to report that I read through the first three (short) chapters this morning (available for free at Goodreads). Favorite line, the conclusion of a passage on the bruises and contusions attendant on the outrages visited upon the cycling novitiate:
"So out of innocence we ripen."
Also: let me Google that for you.
Editing to report that I read through the first three (short) chapters this morning (available for free at Goodreads). Favorite line, the conclusion of a passage on the bruises and contusions attendant on the outrages visited upon the cycling novitiate:
"So out of innocence we ripen."
Also: let me Google that for you.
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06-26-23, 10:33 AM
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Sorry, couldn't resist. I will follow this thread closely since I too would be interested in fiction books centered on cycling.
06-26-23, 01:32 PM
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https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/gra...e-of-violence/
I haven't read it but it's about cyclist called Bradley, written 20 years before Brad Wiggins won the TDF.
I haven't read it but it's about cyclist called Bradley, written 20 years before Brad Wiggins won the TDF.
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Has anyone seen the movie The Bicycle Thief? A 1948 vintage movie
Keep seeing that on lists saying it is one of the best movies about bicycles ever made. But I can find a free streaming service and I'm too cheap to buy a copy.
I don't know many fiction books but sure have read quite a number of true biographies.
Keep seeing that on lists saying it is one of the best movies about bicycles ever made. But I can find a free streaming service and I'm too cheap to buy a copy.
I don't know many fiction books but sure have read quite a number of true biographies.
