Found this in the clearance bin at Halfords for 50p today, whilst I was out cycling. Plan to read (eventually) and release.

What made me pick this book up? I was in a boring shop (all car parts and tools) and saw a sad lonely book in the reduction bin for 50p. How could I not rescue it from such a place.

About half way along I realised non-fact/news reporting isn’t really any different from writing a diary. It’s just a little glimpse inside the author’s brain on the subject at hand. Interesting how the articles slot together nicely to form a book, out of chronological printing order. There is a little repetition, but it’s not too annoying.

Refreshing to read a book by an enthusiast, but also very regular participant in said subject matter. I love that he is not elitist about it either. Just enjoying spreading his passion for cycling and welcoming new members (except perhaps at peak times lol). It has really reignited my own passion for the enjoyment of cycling. Took Me longer to read this book than it should have, as it kept stirring my my own memories of cycling adventures. Also I kept on stopping to look up people and events. Some like Heinz Stücke that I remembered. Also seen documentary on Lance cheating Armstrong. I wonder how gutted the author is about Lance Armstrong finally being outed as a cheat. He must have been devistated, judging from his glowing reviews on here.

So glad I read this book I can’t even tell you!

For future readers:
Are you a cyclist?
What is cycling like in your city/country?
How does it measure up to London (as the author discusses it here)?

This book is off the Sweden, to a fellow BookCrosser, my side of a swap.

Thank you so much for asking for this book. It has really ignited the desire to cycle again. I smashed my tail bone nearly two years ago (coming off a motorbike). Hopefully time has healed it as I now REALLY want to cycle again!

Happy reading!

Ps I just started to read My Life by David Jason that you sent me - really love it so far!

Thank you so much for sending me this book, Shahrun! It arrived last week, and I really liked the card you wrote on, it had a nice meditative feel about it. Hopefully, your tail bone has turned out to be fully healed by now so you can enjoy a bit of spring cycling. Take care!

Although the book is ten years old and the columns slightly older, I found the subject matters interesting. Many of the issues, like the mind sets and sometimes conflicts between motorists, different types of cyclists and walkers, cyclist behaviour, town planning with cyclists in mind (or not, as is often the case) are very familiar to me as a citizen of Stockholm, Sweden.

Seaton's obvious passion for cycling rubs of, and I find myself longing for my bike, although I only have a leisure one and I'm one of the slow scatter-headed riders.

However, I can't help but be a little disappointed with the low morals that the author sometimes shows: he has hardly any qualms buying stolen goods, comlpetely aware that it is.

See you soon. Enjoy the book!

I have used a bike to go to and from school, and work, all my life so for me it is just the "tool" to get from A to B - something I do without thinking about, day in and day out (come blizzard and -28 C or rain/deluges ). So to read a book as this where people actually see the bike as something weird/exotic is always an interesting experience. However, I am a bit disappointed in the writer and his very one-sided view on "good versus bad" (for example the question of doping ).

At their book exchange.