Bespoke

The Riders' Guide to Cycle-Speak and Saddle Slang

Tom Bromley, Neil Stevens (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2019
Velodrome Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-911162-04-9 (ISBN)

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Since the earliest days of Henri Desgrange and the first Tour de France competitive cycling has developed its own distinct language - a velo vernacular, a peloton patois - that celebrates a rich history, a proud culture and those myths and legends of the road fashioned by extreme feats of two-wheeled endurance.

Some sports lend themselves to language: cycling is one of them. With its rich history and culture, its professional roots across the continent and beyond, cycling has developed a terminology that goes well beyond borders, producing a lexicon all of its own.

This book guides the reader through a land where the road to hell is paved not with good intentions, but with cobbles. This is a place where all the world is a stage, unless you are a one-day specialist. Where its inhabitants come with a litany of arresting nicknames: Badgers, Cannibals, Eagles, Pirates, each with a wonderful story of their own.

This is a book that takes the reader from the tete de la course to the grupetto at the back, from the caravane following the race to the tifosi cheering on the mountainside. Insightful and irreverent, Be:Spoke is the book for anyone who wants to be able to speak cycling. The book is complete with a series of specially commissioned artworks by celebrated `Crayonfire' illustrator Neil Stevens.

Tom Bromley is a published author, editor and ghost (not the scary kind). He has written ten books under his own name, ghostwritten a further nine, and edited just under a hundred published titles. Tom's own books are a mixture of fition and non-fiction, with a dabble in crime (the literary variety) under the pseudonym Thomas Black. He also teaches creative writing for, among others, the Faber Academy and works as an editorial consultant and mentor for a number of publishers, literary agencies and organisations. He lives with his family in Salisbury.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2017
Zusatzinfo	20 colour and b&w photographs and artworks
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-911162-04-7 / 1911162047
ISBN-13	978-1-911162-04-9 / 9781911162049
Zustand	Neuware