Originally Posted by
shovelhd
I'm reading it now, and I'm enjoying it. I haven't gotten to where it's motivating. In due time, I guess.
I love the book. I've bought it many times. I lend it out and never see it again.
Like you I don't find it particularly motivating. I enjoy it because it is the closest thing I have read or seen that captures what it is like to be in a road race. And it also is about the days when 10-speed meant 2 on the front and 5 on the back and not cassettes with 10 cogs. It was a very different world back then.
I lend out the book to new racers hoping that they get a shortcut to understanding the sport. Having said that I have to admit that my experiment has been a total failure. They read the book and still race like idiots. Sigh.