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Full Gas. How to Win a Bike Race – Tactics from Inside the Peloton|Peter Cossins|Librería|9781787290198|LDR Sport - Libros de Ruta

Full Gas. How to Win a Bike Race – Tactics from Inside the Peloton

Hectic, thrilling, but sometimes impenetrable – watching a bike race can baffle as much as entertain. Full Gas is the essential guide to make sense of all things peloton.


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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 delay thanks to a puncture could ruin a rider’s chances over a three-week race and the sport is described as nothing less than chess on wheels. The intricacies and complexities of cycling are what makes it so appealing: an eye for opportunity and a quick mind are just as crucial to success as a 'big engine' or good form.

So how do you win a bike race? How do you cope with crosswinds, cobbles, elbows-out sprints, weaving your way through a teeming peloton? Why are steady nerves one of the best weapons in a rider’s arsenal and breakaway artists to be revered? Where do you see the finest showcase of tactical brilliance? Peter Cossins takes us on to the team buses to hear pro cyclists and directeurs sportifs explain their tactics: when it went right, when they got it wrong – from sprinting to summits, from breakaways to bluffing.

Autor/a
Peter Cossins
Editorial
Yellow Jersey
ISBN
978-1787290198
Páginas
336
Formato
Tapa dura
Fecha publicación
7 Jun 2018
Lengua
Inglés

Peter Cossins ha estado escribiendo sobre ciclismo desde 1993. Ha cubierto dieciséis ediciones del Tour de Francia y pasó tres años como editor de la revista Procycling y los últimos cuatro como editor colaborador de ese título. También ha colaborado con The Guardian, The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Express y Sunday Herald. En 2012 colaboró ​​con el ganador del Tour de Francia, Stephen Roche, en su autobiografía, Born to Ride.