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Alpha Test® | April 2009
ISBN 978-88-483-1129-8
192 pp | € 12,90
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The book at a glance
How much do you know about cycling? Alone or with friends, waiting for the next ride or for the Giro d'Italia, test yourself, finding out anecdotes, oddities, stats and gossip about more than a hundred years of bicycle riding!
Table of contents
1- Introduction
2- Heroic cycling
3- The Champions
4- Giro d'Italia and Tour de France
5- Milano-Sanremo, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège...
6- Legendary sprints, slopes, mountains
7- Velodromo mon amour
8- Modern cycling
The author
Michele Marenco, long distance cyclist from Genoa with a background in physics and a specialization on science communication, learnt to ride a bicycle when he was thirteen, but has never stopped since. In the spare time he writes text books and is a maths and physics teacher.