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A must-have for any British cyclist and an essential read for anyone who thinks they know their way around the hills of the British Isles. --Cycling Weekly Once you've opened pandora's box you won't be able to show up at your next club run until you've bagged them all. - London Cyclist An almost perfect handbook. --Time Out
The book does exactly what it says on the tin. The Sunday Times The photos are excellent, the information is well presented and the book is the ideal size - I can see myself referring to 100 Greatest cycling climbs for years to come. Bromley Video 100 Greatest cycling climbs is one of those books that you always thought existed but didn't the panoply of UK cycling ephemera is greatly enhanced with it's release. Brilliant. --The washing machine post
Great little digest of UK climbs, every cycling home should have one. --Road CC.
The book does exactly what it says on the tin. The Sunday Times The photos are excellent, the information is well presented and the book is the ideal size - I can see myself referring to 100 Greatest cycling climbs for years to come. Bromley Video 100 Greatest cycling climbs is one of those books that you always thought existed but didn't the panoply of UK cycling ephemera is greatly enhanced with it's release. Brilliant. --The washing machine post
Great little digest of UK climbs, every cycling home should have one. --Road CC.
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Cycling is Britain’s biggest boom sport and nowhere is the boom more evident than on the road: once seen as the preserve of serious racers, the road bike has recently found a new lease of life due to the popularity of challenge rides and Sportives. It is now possible for cyclists of all abilities to ride a well marked, well marshalled event just about any weekend of the year, usually based around one, two or sometimes as many as ten fearsome hills. For the first time, here is a pocket-sized guide to the 100 greatest climbs in the land, the building blocks for these rides, written by a cyclist for cyclists. From lung busting city centre cobbles to leg breaking windswept mountain passes, this guide locates the roads that have tested riders for generations and worked their way into cycling folklore. Whether you’re a leisure cyclist looking for a challenge or an elite athlete trying to break records stick this book in your pocket and head for the hills.
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The challenge is set!,
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This review is from: 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs: A Road Cyclist's Guide to Britain's Hills (Paperback)
Most cyclists love a challenge and this book has a hundred of them!
100 Greatest Cycling Climbs is broken into sections by UK region, with a page dedicated to describing each hill climb, along with a one-page facing photo, so you know what you are going to be tackling. There's a simple, clear map to help you find the climb and most have a profile that indicates the steepness of each section and the location of any key landmarks. The inclusion of a checklist to allow you to tick-off the hills as they are conquered is a really nice touch. It's any easy, inspiring read that makes you want to hit those hills. Surely this is set to become a big seller amongst all road cyclists and sportive lovers!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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An inspirational little book,
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This review is from: 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs: A Road Cyclist's Guide to Britain's Hills (Paperback)
Coming back to cycling after atwenty month lay off due to illness, I treated myself to this book. I live in the North West of England and as such have the pleasure of having a few of these climbs on my doorstep. Although I've done quite a few of them before I've found the book is good at helping me to decide where a days ride should be.
It's a lovely perfectly sized book, with the authors passion for climbing really shining through. I loved the line about climbs being the stadia for cyclists. As previously mentioned by other reviewers the tick list is a great little touch and although I've done most of my local climbs a few times I'm not ticking them off until I've done them again. One slight addition that would maybe have been helpful, would've been the inclusion of a list of contact numbers for tourist information, hostels etc for each region although this info is available on the internet it would be handy having it all in one place if you are planning a trip away to visit any of the locations. Oh and there is a mistake on Hardknott and Wrynose passes. Jubilee Bridge is to the West of Hardknott and Fellfoot Farm is to the East of Wyrnose. A simple mistake but would mean that you haven't done the climbs intended if you followed the directions in the book. Other than that one of the best cycling guides I've seen in years.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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I can't belive no-one has done this before!,
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This review is from: 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs: A Road Cyclist's Guide to Britain's Hills (Paperback)
What a fantastic book! As the title says, I can't believe it's taken this long for a book like this to hit the market. I haven't really got a lot to add to the other reviews beyond saying that 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs is a really good size which you can acually fit in your pocket - not always a given - and that the information is presented in such a way as to be genuinely useful - for instance, maps you can actually read but which aren't so large as to infringe upon the rest of the information.
The photos are excellent, the information is well presented and the book is the ideal size - I can see myself referring to 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs for years to come.
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