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French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour De France (Paperback)

by Tim Moore (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (6 Jun 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099433826
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099433828
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.9 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,001 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Comic writer Tim Moore trades his ailing Rolls Royce for a bicycle, a map and a water bottle in French Revolutions. This is a quest to pedal the route of the Tour de France, no mean feat for the fit, let alone a self-described suburban slouch. The resulting 2,256-haphazard-mile journey transforms Moore into an incredibly fit and passionately proud cyclist. Initially, Moore takes the "I will do it and it probably will kill me" approach. His normal perspective, as a stooge to life's misfortunes, plays well as he prepares to ride the route of the 2000 Tour de France. Moore is the everyman who pedalled in youth and now wouldn't ride a bike to the corner store. But unlike a traveller by car, train or plane, Moore has to navigate France under his own steam. Somewhere around the Ventoux, the world's windiest place, Moore starts to change. He becomes enraptured by the feat itself as mile by mile he realises he is no longer an accidental cyclist but a lean, mean cycling machine. Gradually, the narrative turns from travel to a personal quest. Along the route, Moore's details of the heroes of the Tour make an excellent primer on this gruelling race and helps the uninitiated understand the frenzy that grips France each July as the races meanders through incidental villages, over mountains and, finally, into Paris. It is worth reading for that alone. Having survived mountains of pain, a disgusting diet and motels of dubious value, a new, muscular Moore concludes that "I might never leave my mark on the Tour, but that didn't matter. It has left its mark on me". To follow Moore's path of perspiration is certainly not a vacation. Yet, this curmudgeonly clever and inspirational book makes one want to do just that. "Old Father Time was catching up with Old Father Tim. If I didn't do it this year, I wouldn't because maybe next year I couldn't," he says before starting out. And that, as Tim Moore so surely points out, is what pushes any true traveller out the door. --Kathleen Buckley --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


Daily Express, 23 June, 2001

The book's comic effect should not be underestimated: it is embarrassingly laugh-out-loud. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Warning: do not read in public, 9 Aug 2001
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This review is from: French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France (Paperback)
As a keen cyclist (well, 50 miles a week) and a huge Tour de France fan, I was looking forward to this as a substitute for Channel 4's absent coverage of the race this year. What I didn't expect was that as well as being an informative, inspirational and - yes - moving account of a splendidly hopeless amateur's attempt to "do the Tour", French Revolutions would also turn out to be perhaps the funniest book I've ever read. My wife banned me from reading it in bed because I kept her awake with my helpless giggling, and reading it on a crowded train one morning was a BIG mistake.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars not the techy drivel I was expecting, 12 Oct 2002
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Having run out of books on holiday i picked up my father's copy of 'French Revolutions'. I expected any book my dad owned to be heavily detailed on group sets and bottom brackets, and of little intest to the casual cyclist. How wrong was I. You don't need to know anything about the tour, the book is laugh out loud funny, unputdownable. The acheivement of any man who can ride this incredable race is hammered home, there is no sporting acheivement on earth like this one. However what really makes the book good is the way it draws in the reader, everyone's had the 5year old in the park experience of riding, but few can express it as hilariously as Tim Moore. The book is packed with dry humour and an author people can relate to, 'French Revolutions' has to be in my top ten of books. Go out - Buy it!
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I think this is the funniest book I've ever read, 10 Oct 2002
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I laughed out loud more times than I can count. Could be a seriously embarrassing book to take on a plane or train journey, unless you don't care about disturbing your fellow travellers with your chortles.
The book is about a journalist's journey around the route of the Tour De France, taking in most of the stages covered by the professionals, a couple of months before the race itself.
Moore is a very engaging writer, and very open about his (rather pathetic) need to identify with past and present Tour De France heroes - even though he's new to cycling, in his late thirties, and not (at the start of the book) particularly fit.
Probably you'll understand and relate to the book best if you're a follower of the Tour (expecially the Phil Liggett/Paul Sherwen combo on Channel 4/ITV), or a keen cyclist, or both.
Reminiscent of early Bill Bryson, I thought - but (for me) much funnier.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious
Bought this book on Amazon after reading it a few years ago from the library. It's just as good as I remembered. Read more
Published 2 months ago by KD

1.0 out of 5 stars Rubbish read
First and foremost, this book is not funny! Don't believe the laugh out loud nonsense some people have accredited to this boring drivel. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. C. P. Ferguson

5.0 out of 5 stars Very funny and a great read
Whilst I am a cyclist, you don't need to be to appreciate the humour in this book. A very interesting and honest account of one mans attempt to ride the route of the Tour de... Read more
Published 2 months ago by C. B. Hutton

2.0 out of 5 stars Hmmmm, was expecting better
Big Tour fan, keen cyclist, sick of high-handed travel writers who set themselves a challenge which they patently do not enjoy, only to travel to other countries to marvel at how... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Gotte

2.0 out of 5 stars Started ok, became very tedious
The book started really well, was laugh out loud funny. But then it just degenerated into a series of "cycled into town, hotel was grubby, staff were miserable, cycled into town,... Read more
Published 9 months ago by P. M. Wright

1.0 out of 5 stars Not funny at all
Whether a lot of this was made up for 'laughs' or not, the author comes across as a rude bloke who deserved a smack from several of the people he encountered en-route.
Published 9 months ago by J. D. Ruck

5.0 out of 5 stars HIlarious
Extremely funny, like all of his books. I've actually found this somewhat dangerous to read on the tube into work as I keep laughing out loud. Genius.
Published 12 months ago by D. Stephens

3.0 out of 5 stars Tour de Farce
didn't really get on with this at all - the central problem was a dislike of Mr Moore - a bit of a moaning cheat, he was rude and miserable to everyone he met, cut corners and... Read more
Published 14 months ago by K. Nicholson

4.0 out of 5 stars Always pleasing
Tim Moore has produced a book that makes you laugh out loud yet again.

This one is slightly different as you suspect Moore had started to lose his mind before he even... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Neil A. Chambers

4.0 out of 5 stars A good read but not as funny as many claim
I bought this book and started reading with anticipation. It is generally quite interesting, and does contain many amusing incidents, but I would certainly not describe the book... Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2007 by M. P. Dixon

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