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| View Larger Image | Blazing Saddles: The Cruel and Unusual History of the Tour de France
by Matt Rendell
| | List Price: | $24.95 | | Price: | $16.47 | | You Save: | $8.48 (34%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 59510 | | Studio: | VeloPress | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 320 | | Publication Date: | April 28, 2008 | | Publisher: | VeloPress |
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Product Description
In this fascinating book, award-winning sports writer Matt Rendell covers every corner of "La Grande Boucle," from the eccentric couture of the first Tour winner (white blazer, black trousers, wool socks) to the earliest method of cheating (riding the train). Blazing Saddles recounts the famous rivalries and riders that contested the Tour, setting the score straight with complete records of every podium finisher. Rendell's vivid storytelling is complemented with more than 100 classic black-and-white photographs, portraying cycling's heroes and martyrs from Jacques Anquetil to Lance Armstrong. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 2 reviews)
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Bit & bit 
This is a fun read for the anecdotes and characters - I thoroughly enjoyed it - but it needs a bit more to link through as a full story.
I still recommend it, even if you don't know a lot about cycling. I'm still bombing around on a 30 year old Gitane.
August 25, 2008 | |
Simmering Saddles 
The title of this book conjures up images of that wonderful 1974 Mel Brooks movie of the same name. Unfortunately, the book should have been called "Simmering Saddles." I have had my copy for about a month, and I have to say it is anything but a page turner. I am about half way through the book and it has been relegated to the magazine basket in one of the bathrooms in my house. There I can quickly read another one page synopsis of the next year's Tour de France during my daily constitutional.
I have gotten as far as the mid 1950s of Tour history. Each year gets about a page or a page plus of coverage of endless names, with very few interesting details. I have looked ahead in the book, and the modern tours get multi-page treatment, but then again if you are a fan, you probably are well aware of the events of recent editions of the Tour de France.
If you are looking for a good account of Tour history, I would investigate the two volume set that is currently available by another author. Although I have not read them, they almost have to be better than this boring waste of a good trees.
August 13, 2008 | |
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