Gironimo!
Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy
Recommended by Simon Cole, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #26 in Cycling
Twelve years after Tim Moore toiled around the route of the Tour de France, he senses his achievement being undermined by the truth about 'Horrid Lance'. His rash response is to take on a fearsome challenge from an age of untarnished heroes: the notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia. History's most appalling bike race was an ordeal of 400-kilometer stages, filled with cataclysmic storms, roads strewn with nails, and even the loss of an eye by one competitor—and it was all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine.
Of the eighty-one riders who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. To... more
Of the eighty-one riders who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. To... more
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