Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Cycling fiction.

Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men on the Bummel" describes three Englishmen at the beginning of the last century on a bicycle tour of Germany.

Dorothy L. Sayer's "Five Red Herrings" has the murderer use a bicycle to establish his alibi.

Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Solitary Cyclist" and one other story whose hame I don't recall both have bicycles as central to the plot.

Can anyone else come up with any other cycling fiction?

L.A. Confidential by David Walsh

:D

Sorry mang, it was too easy.

But here's some more

http://www.velopress.com/fiction.php

I remember reading Two Wheels when it first came out. I even bought a Haven Pharmecuticals team jersey and socks back in '97. Still wear 'em from time 2 time.

Can anyone else come up with any other cycling fiction?

here are 969 books on (or related to) cycling that are in the public domain or freely available in electronic form for viewing or download (http://books.google.com/books?q=bicycling&as_brr=1)

i like this quote:

"... DESPITE the undeniable fact that bicycle riding
among women is not so popular now as during its fad period a few years ago..."

-- The Woman's Book of Sports: A Practical Guide to Physical Development by Jahial Parmly Paret, 1901, page 76

The Rider by Tim Krabbe & The Yellow Jersey by Ralph Hurne

Both are great reads

A Bicycle of Cathay by Frank R. Stockton. It was written in 1889. It's about a guy who sets out on a bicycle tour, but only makes it as far as the next town before falling in love.

The Rider by Tim Krabbe & The Yellow Jersey by Ralph Hurne

Both are great reads

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Ron McLarty's The Memory of Running.

I picked up a copy of Derailleur by Greg Moody at the library tonight.
If it's any good I will post a note.

Can we plug our own books?

THE NIGHT MEN by Keith Snyder (me) starts with a bike ride over the Brooklyn Bridge in the snow.

A character in william Gibson's Virtual Light named chevette was a bike messenger. The bike had a very unusual anti-theft system. now that you've got me thinking about it, I'm gonna have to pull it down for a reread. I love this book.

The Wheels of Chance by HG Wells. A diversion from HG Wells' usual science fiction where the main characters are all riding on bikes and their adventures.

Thanks to you, I just read both. Great stuff. Now, on to the next one!




The Rider by Tim Krabbe & The Yellow Jersey by Ralph Hurne

Both are great reads

I am the Cheese?

Hotel Pastis by Peter Mayle has a gang of bank thieves train on race bicycles and then escape a bank heist on bicycles during a huge traffic jam.

Mary and "Sounds", both by Vladimir Nabokov. The tie between cycling and the themes of the stories is tenuous, granted, and neither feature the bike too much though the descriptions are nice. Do you really need an excuse to read Nabokov?