Category Archives: Tour de France

Cycletouring the Tour de France

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This year’s Tour de France starts on the island of Noirmoutier, on the Atlantic coast of western France. Jack rides the route of Stage one, in a touring style, taking in the rich landscape of sand dunes, beaches, tidal lagoons and salt marsh and sampling the gastronomic delights of the region.

Thanks to Vendée Tourism for logistical support for this journey.

Read Jack’s write up of the journey for the Guardian newspaper.

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From Peace Race to Tour de France

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In a recording of a live event held as part of the CycleScreen bicycle film festival at the Watershed Cinema in Bristol, Jack Thurston talks with author Herbie Sykes about his highly acclaimed book The Race Against the Stasi. It’s a gripping story, a true story, that took place at the height of the Cold War, a tale of young love and bike racing, of political ideology and state surveillance set in a Europe rebuilding after the catastrophe of the second world war.

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Ain’t Nuthin’ but a G Thang: Geraint Thomas’s World of Cycling

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In a live event Jack Thurston talks to double Olympic gold medallist and top Team Sky rider Geraint Thomas about his life in cycling as told in his new book The World of Cycling According to G.

If your cycling is more pottering than peloton, then you can find out more about Jack’s latest book: Lost Lanes Wales over here.

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Tour de France: Rest Day Review with Simon Warren

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Toni Rominger on Alpe d’Huez in 1996 / (C) Piano Piano – Flickr CC

It’s the end of the second week of this year’s Tour de France, just time for us – and the riders – to catch our breaths before the final week and the showdown in the Alps.

Joining Jack Thurston for this Rest Day Review is Simon Warren, a man who knows cycling’s great ups and downs better than almost anyone outside the professional peloton. Simon is an accomplished amateur racing cyclist and author of the 100 Greatest Climbs series of pocket sized books cycling hill climbs. His latest is a guide to the greatest climbs of South East England.

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Tour de France: Rest Day Review with Edward Pickering

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Photo credit Frans Berkelaar / Flickr – CC-SA

After eight varied and exciting days of bike racing, the riders in the Tour de France take a well-earned rest day. Cycling journalist and author Edward Pickering has been following the race and is on hand to review the first week and look ahead to how the race will unfold as the road heads uphill for three tough days in the Pyrenees. Edward Pickering is the author of The Yellow Jersey Club, published by Bantam Press, and editor of Procycling magazine.

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Tour de France preview with Guy Andrews

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With just a few days until the start of the 2015 Tour de France, cycling author, journalist and photographer Guy Andrews joins Jack Thurston to look forward to one of the most eagerly anticipated grand tours in decades. With four strong contenders and an action-packed parcours, the race promises three weeks of bike racing excitement.

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Christmas Books Special

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Jack Thurston is joined by a galaxy of stars from the world of cycling literature to pick over the cream of this year’s crop of bike books. Nominating their cycling book of the year are Feargal McKay, Ned Boulting, Herbie Sykes, Daniel Friebe, Tom Southam, Richard Moore, Max Leonard and Emma O’Reilly. Guy Andrews, founding editor of Rouleur magazine, is on hand with his crystal ball to look at what cycling books we might expect in 2015 and years to come.

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