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CharleyGnarly
07-23-10, 08:19 PM
I am an avid reader. I also like bicycles. So, I would like to find some good cycling novels. Fiction type stuff. I looked online, but I got way bored sifting through all of the junk. I was hoping there was a novelization of Breaking Away, but I never found one. That would be cool.
With that in mind, what are some good ones?

rechardbension
07-28-10, 06:31 AM
Tim Krabbe "The Rider" Novel is the very good for me.
its a cycling classic the story is of one race, told first person from the point of view of a rider in with a chance to win. Each page is roughly a kilometer of the race.
cyclistbrian
08-10-10, 10:49 AM
Wheels of Chance by H.G. Wells, The Yellow Jersey by Ralph Hurne, Three Men on a Bummel by Jerome k. Jerome. Must reads.. + 1 on The Rider.

cyclistbrian
08-10-10, 10:55 AM
Also...Not a Novel but a must read..Need For The Bike by Paul Fournel.
Artkansas
11-29-10, 01:52 PM
Between My Legs by Chaim Sil, available used at Amazon

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klondike300
11-29-10, 09:55 PM
The Lost Cyclist by David Herlihy. Good story about Frank Lenz. Trying to solo circumnavigate the globe in the late 1890's. Killed somewhere around Turkey. Murder never solved.
strafbomber
02-12-11, 03:43 PM
Wolfgang Flür - I Was a Robot. If you are into electronic music and Kraftwerk in particular, this book written by the ex-drummer of this band gives some interesting insights behind the scenes...and one possible reason why Kraftwerk has almost ceased to exist (yes, it might have something to do with cycling ;) ).
Caretaker
04-13-11, 01:42 PM
"The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones."

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien