Attention Road Cyclists! Great Book Reading On BBC iPlayer.
Posted by: George J on 15 May 2014
The current Radio Four Book of the Week broadcast at 00:30 hours each night this week.
Go to BBC iPlayer, then find Radio four and look for Book of the Week.
I guarantee that anyone who loves riding road bike, or indeed any bike, will love this fascinating story of a quite old man riding a 1914 Hirondelle cycle round the 1914 Giro d'Italia route.
I hope that some may enjoy this. Last episode on Friday night - or strictly speaking Saturday morning.
But the first three parts are already out on iPlayer. The iPlayer holds programmes for a week from broadcast.
ATB from George
Terrible photographs of a Century old cycle, but he must have been brave.
Apart from having the same Brooks saddle as my Carlton, this old bike is one to make my antique look rather modern! Only thirty years old!
Listen to the woes of cork lined brake clappers on beech-wood rims!
ATB from George