Gironimo!

A considerable achievement – Duncan Craig * Lonely Planet Traveller *Painfully funny – Tim Dowling * Week *A wonderfully written, extremely funny book… You read Gironimo! with a permanent smile on your face * UK Press Syndication *A superbly funny read * Cycling Weekly *Readers of Moore’s French Revolutions will not be disappointed by this hilariously painful, and poignant, adventure – Anna Carey * Irish Times *Gironimo! is partly a story of adversity, despair, and tenacity – and partly a funny, and often sweary, travelogue. I was hooked from the start – Seamus Kelly * Cycle *Absurd, inspirational and laugh-out-loud funny, Gironimo! Is a charming tribute to the dogged resilience of the amateur spirit and a golden age of road cycling – Tom Kerr * Racing Post *Part travelogue, part sports record and part history and all written with his inimitable humour * By the Dart *Gironimo is the perfect successor to French Revolutions, and provides more of everything that made the latter so popular * Cycling World *The author’s adventures are often highly entertaining, though, as “road-trip” literature, it is unusual in that it mostly makes the reader glad not to be on the road! * Good Book Guide *

Tim Moore can look back on a towering career in misadventure. He has ridden the route of the Tour de France in French Revolutions, led a donkey on a 500-mile pilgrimage in Spanish Steps, and driven around the worst places in Britain in an Austin Maestro for You Are Awful (But I Like You). Gironimo!, his latest and most imposing pedal-powered endeavor, is a story of predictable over-ambition trumped by frankly staggering over-achievement. Moore lives in London with his wife and three children, and still wears those welding goggles at Christmas.