EAN 9781840184006

Picking up where Tour De France: The History, The Legend, The Riders left off, Graeme Fife's Inside the Peloton pedals over similar territory. This time out, rather than dedicating chapters to the most punishing of the famed energy-sapping climbs of the Tour, Fife looks at some of the great characters whose feats have made the race one of the great endeavours of the sporting world. From Eddy Merckx, undoubtedly the greatest of them all, to Charlie Holland, an early English pre-war pioneer, each rider covered brings with him stories of the tours in which he raced and the contemporaries with and against whom he rode.