On the Road Bike
The Search For a Nation’s Cycling Soul

Firstly, this book was released as "On the Road Bike"-I assume the "Yellow Jumpers for Goalposts" title was dropped quite late on (in fact there is a clue that choosing a title may have been a struggle between Ned and his editor in the acknowledgements section if you look carefully). For what it's w......more

Ned Boulting, a sports journalist, describes the history of cycling culture in Britain from his perspective as an enthusiastic amateur. He does this mostly through telling the tales of past and present cyclists and as most of the past ones are largely unknown outside of the cycling world, there are......more

Almost or pretty obviously if you are interested in Cycling well pass this over...unless of course you are the long suffering spouse of a cyclist and want to work out your partners mindset... To be honest I've returned to Cycling after laying off for some years I guess when I was initially Cycling Mi......more

A pretty poor little book. Not awful, but just not as good as it should have been. There is no doubt that it's a book for cycling fans, and as that it has some fun in the reading. But there is far too much attempt to be "chummy" and self depreciating, it mostly gets in the way. Boulting spends a lot......more

Not sure how he manages to be modest, articulate and on many levels an impressive person (in terms of his foreign language skills) but still dead annoying! Decent book about some of men's cycling's unsung heroes along with his own experiences. Probably should have spoke more about Beryl Burton, Victo......more