Full Gas
How to Win a Bike Race – Tactics from Inside the Peloton
$33.57
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
6 June 2019
Summary
Winner of the Cycling Book of the Year at the 2019 Telegraph Sports Book of the Year Awards
Bluffing, breakaways, sprinting, and strategy – Full Gas takes us on the team bus to give us the inside story on tactics directly from the riders and managers themselves.
So how do you win a bike race? Riding as fast as you could for as long as you could was the main tactic in the early days of road racing when Grand Tours could be won by hours. Now, a minute’s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787290204 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787290204 |
| Author: | Peter Cossins |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Yellow Jersey Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 6 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Peter Cossins
First drawn into the sport while a student in Spain in the mid-1980s, Peter Cossins has been writing about cycling since 1993, contributing principally to Cycling Weekly, Cycle Sport and Procycling. The Monuments, his history of cycling’s five greatest one-day Classic races, was published in 2014, followed in 2015 by Alpe d’Huez, an appraisal of cycling’s greatest climb. For Yellow Jersey Press he has written the definitive account of the first ever Tour de France, Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep the also the enlightening book on cycling tactics, Full Gas. He lives in the Ari ge in the heart of the French Pyrenees.
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