Tour of Flanders: The Inside Story. The rocky roads of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Softcover

Woodland, Les

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098596362X ISBN 13: 9780985963620

Publisher: McGann Publishing LLC, 2014

Synopsis

The Tour of Flanders is Belgium's most brutal day in the saddle. The bike-crazed Flemish don't just send riders over cobblestone roads. Nor are they content to break the racers' legs with nearly 20 steep hills. No, the worst of all cycling worlds meet in Flanders with narrow, vertical roads paved with slippery, dangerous cobbles. The hills are so steep they are called "muurs", or walls, and they come one after another, for hours, until the riders are shattered with exhaustion. The Tour of Flanders is so fiendishly difficult that the man who wins it earns everlasting fame. Les Woodland tells the inside story of how the Flandrians became the world's most formidable racers, and of the dream of one writer to create a signature race, one that would showcase the Flemish virtues of toughness, endurance and determination. That dream became the Tour of Flanders, one of cycling's monuments. Come join Les for a fascinating ride in the cobbled hills of Flanders. About the Author: Les Woodland has been cycling for 50 years and has been writing about cycling since 1965, when he wrote his first reports for the British publication "Cycling". Since then he has been a prolific contributor to newspapers, magazines, web sites and radio stations in the U.K., the U.S. and Belgium as well as authoring more than 25 books. Mr. Woodland, who lives in France, speaks several of the languages of cycling: English, Dutch and French.

About this title

About the Author:

Les Woodland is a long-time bicycle racing correspondent for several cycling publications and websites. He is also the author of "The Crooked Path to Victory: Drugs and Cheating in Professional Bicycle Racing".

About this edition

• Publisher: McGann Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 098596362X
• ISBN 13: 9780985963620
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156