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The first ever English-language biography of Eddy Merckx, the greatest cyclist of all time, by William Fotheringham, Britain's top cycling writer.

Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to box…

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The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

The Secret Race is a definitive look at the world of professional cycling—and the doping issue surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong—by former Olympic gold medalist Tyler H…

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It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he rides to get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and su…

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Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists

For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to…

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Higher Calling: Cycling's Obsession with Mountains

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One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team Education First and one of the sport's most towering figures.

Jonathan Vaughters' story …

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Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France

The Tour de France is sport's most compelling battle -- an annual cauldron of heroism and treachery, spectacle and controversy, mind-games and endurance.

But the 1986 Tour stands out as the year in whi…

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My Hour

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Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro

Plump, grumpy, slumped on the couch, and going nowhere fast at age 16, Phil Gaimon began riding a bicycle with the grand ambition of shedding a few pounds before going off to college. He soon fell int…

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My World

From 2015 to 2017, Peter Sagan achieved the seemingly he won three road race World Championships in a row, ensuring his entry into the history books as one of the greatest riders of all time.But to lo…

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