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Audiobook- How I Won the Yellow Jumper: #1 A Simple Mistake
To help fill the void in this raceless spring, our editor Ned Boulting has kindly decided to produce for the first time an audiobook version of his publication “How I...
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The Armchair Series- #2 “Revered. Almost holy. Hidden behind that secret door”
Described by the Telegraph as the ultimate love letter to road cycling, The Road Book is proud to present The Armchair Series, showcasing in their own words what...
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“Some of my earliest memories are riding a bike alongside her while she was running”- Quinn Simmons
Cast your minds back to a simpler, albeit rather wetter, time in late September of last year. We’re in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and a ginger-bearded youth, round black studs in both...
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THE ROAD BOOK #19: A wonderful Paris Nice comes to an end, thank heavens
Mixed feelings as Ned and David go their separate ways.
Read moreTHE ROAD BOOK #18: Paris Nice Stage Five. Love in the time of Corona: a great stage, and an even greater idea.
David and Ned review another unexpectedly good day’s racing, reveal the Best Idea In World Cycling, and there’s another little audiobook, and it’s about Phil Liggett.
Read moreTHE ROAD BOOK #17: Paris Nice Stage Four. It’s time trial day. But on the plus side, we have an interview with Nairo Quintana’s bodyguard, the wonderful Connor Swift.
David and Ned salute Max Schachmann, the chess master. Has he got them in check mate? Yes, probably. But also, maybe not. Because the future is not known.
Read moreThe Armchair Series- #1 “For me, The Road Book doesn’t provide answers, rather it compels questions”
Described by the Telegraph as the ultimate love letter to road cycling, The Road Book is proud to present The Armchair Series, showcasing in their own words what our...
Read moreTHE ROAD BOOK #16: Paris Nice Stage Three – More wind but different! And Sagan almost wins but doesn’t.
A Sagan special as Ned tries to back up his ludicrous prediction, and David has to listen to him reading from one of his books.
Read moreTHE ROAD BOOK #15: Paris Nice Stage Two (and there’s more carnage)
The winds blow, the bordures bordure and Ned’s predictions grow wings. Ned and David talk about the oft and aforementioned predictions regards certain professional cyclist’s future, not just in 2020,...
Read moreTHE ROAD BOOK #14: Paris Nice Stage One
David and Ned are reunited in France* and begin the first of eight world class podcasts from Paris** and then Nice*** *Ealing **Ealing ***Ealing For Free UK delivery on all...
Read moreTHE ROAD BOOK #13: Unlucky for some. Matt Rendell joins Ned on the line, from quarantine in the UAE.
Ned and Matt discuss the ramifications for cycling of the Coronavirus, with Matt in lockdown in Abu Dhabi
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Love In The Time Of Corona- Ned Boulting
In the end, it’s not about the virus, not really. It’s about us. What is tormenting about COVID-19 and its coded desire to self-replicate and co-exist with humanity, is...
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