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The Hour: Sporting immortality the hard way
The Hour: Sporting immortality the hard way
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22 June, 2006
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The Hour . It's the only cycling record that matters: one man and his bike against the clock in a quest for pure speed. No teammates, no rivals, no tactics, no gears, no brakes. Just one simple question - in sixty minutes, how far can you go? Michael Hutchinson had a plan. He was going to add his name to the list of record-holders - riders like Coppi, Merckx, Anquetil, Boardman, the supermen who've made the Hour the domain of cycling's greatest stars. It didn't sound too hard. All he needed was a couple of hand-tooled bike frames, the most expensive wheels money could buy, a support team of crack professionals, a small pot of glue, and a credit card wired to someone else's bank account. Still, getting the glue wasn't a problem. The Hour is the story of how a man who became a professional athlete by accident embarked on a quest for sporting immortality. But it's also the story of an extraordinary record, and the riders who have made it so - from Graham Obree, the genius who built his own bike using parts from a washing machine, to Jacques Anquetil, great champion, great drug-taker and great family man (having had a child by his step-daughter, he married his step-son's ex-wife). Gripping, packed with fascinating stories and very, very funny, The Hour is what happens when a man from the secret, early-morning world of British bike racing takes a shot at stardom.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780224075190 |
| ISBN10 | 0224075195 |
| Number Of Pages | 340 |
| Item Weight | 298 g |
| Product Dimensions | 134 x 24 x 212 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Yellow Jersey Press |
| Format | paperback |
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Author's Bio
Michael Hutchinson became a full-time cyclist in 2000 after becoming disillusioned with an academic career. Over the following six years he has won more than twenty national titles, and the gold medal in the Masters' Pursuit World Championships. He is now a writer and journalist (and cyclist) and lives in south London.