Libros más populares en España●Ciclismo

Si amas el ciclismo, pero siempre te falta tiempo para entrenar, Entrenamiento del ciclista te devolverá a la cabeza del pelotón en 6 horas a la semana. Eso es, seis horas a la semana es todo lo que necesitas para desarrollar una condición física competitiva y recuperar la capacidad de ganar carreras. El revolucionario programa de entrenamiento diseñado por Chris Carmichael, que incluye sesiones de bajo volumen y alta intensidad, se adecuará a tu estilo de vida y te ayudará en la consecuc...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-04-11 9,99 €

A Guillermo Ortiz lo conocemos por sus excelentes artículos y libros, pero ¿de dónde surge su amor por el ciclismo? Y, ¿a qué se debe su particular fascinación por Gianni Bugno? "Yo soñaba con ser Gianni Bugno por mucho que incluso Forges se burlara de él en sus viñetas de El País. Gianni en ciclamino en el Giro de 1994 mientras Telecinco nos intentaba vender compresores; Gianni doble campeón del mundo; Gianni en la épica de los tifosi, que le escribían en las laderas del Mortirolo ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-04-01 11,99 €

La historia del famoso Giro de Italia y las anécdotas que lo acompañan. En 1909 Italia era un país recién hecho. Una de las ideas más rocambolescas para terminar de cuajarlo fue precisamente el Giro, un desfile de vampiros, saltimbanquis, lunáticas, fascistas, partisanos, piratas y caníbales que pasó rodando desde los Alpes hasta Sicilia ante la puerta de millones de italianos. Y los unió alrededor de la épica, la tragedia y la comedia del ciclismo. Como suele ocurrir con los buenos in...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-05-13 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 8,99 €

------------------------------- On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police. In his car were the drugs the team needed if they were to have any chance of playing a competitive part in the 1998 Tour de France. The car was searched, he was immediately arrested and so the story that has been undermining the sport of cycling since the death of Tommy Simpson in 1967, finally broke. Imprisoned for sixteen days, sacked from the Festina team and ostracised from the sport to...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-02-28 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,49 €

From 2015 to 2017, Peter Sagan achieved the seemingly impossible: he won three road race World Championships in a row, ensuring his entry into the history books as one of the greatest riders of all time. But to look at Peter’s record in isolation is to tell only a fraction of his story, because Peter doesn’t just win: he entertains. Every moment in the saddle is an opportunity to express his personality, and nobody else has succeeded in making elite cycling look so much fun. From no-hands wh...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-10-04 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,49 €

In A Rough Ride , Paul Kimmage gives a devastatingly frank account of what life is really like in the world of professional cycling. In tracing his mixed fortunes, Kimmage describes not only the grueling pressures of the sport but also the seamier side: the widespread use of drugs to enhance performance. A Rough Ride breaks the law of silence to expose a world where the supposed glamour has worn very thin.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-08-31 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 6,49 €

ONE WAY TICKET is the story of a man and modern cycling. Jonathan Vaughters is one of the leading figures in world cycling, a record-breaking mountain climber, Tour de France stage winner and former teammate to Lance Armstrong. He is now manager and influential figurehead of the renowned Education First World Tour team. In ONE-WAY TICKET: Nine Lives and Two Wheels he describes a journey from driven teenage prodigy, travelling to races in the back of his Dad's station wagon, to an obsessive deter...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-06-27 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 2,99 €

Who is The Secret Cyclist and why all the secrecy? "Every public aspect of our lives is so tightly controlled that being truly honest is all but impossible in a newspaper interview, never mind a whole book. You try write a warts-and-all blog about your office. Question how the business is run, make sure you remember to call your boss a moron, and then tell me how it goes." He's ridden for World Tour teams for ten years. He's achieved top ten finishes in Grand Tours. He likes coffee. These are ju...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-05-23 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 11,99 €

'Byrne comes across like a post-punk Michael Palin.' Sephen Dalton, The Times 'An engaging book; part-diary, part-manifesto.' Observer David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation since the 1980's. When he tours, Byrne travels with a folding bicycle, bringing it to cities like London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Manila, New York, Detroit and San Francisco. The view from his bike seat has given Byrne a panoramic window ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-06-03 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 8,49 €

An eye-opening expose of and a heart-breaking lament for professional cycling Paul Kimmage's boyhood dreams were of cycling glory: wearing the yellow jersey, cycling the Tour de France, becoming a national hero. He knew it wouldn't come easy, but he was prepared to put in the graft. The dedication paid off – he finished sixth in the World Championships as an amateur and in 1986, he turned professional. He soon discovered it wasn't about courage, training hours or how much you wanted to win. It...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-06-30 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 10,99 €

FROM GERAINT THOMAS, WINNER OF THE 2018 TOUR DE FRANCE Like no other cycling book, from no other rider - Britain's cycling star shares his unique take on the world of cycling Sit back or saddle up as double Olympic gold medallist and multiple world champion Geraint Thomas gives you a warts and all insight into the life of a pro cyclist. Along the way he reveals cycling's clandestine codes and secret stories, tales from the peloton, the key characters like Wiggins, Hoy and Cav, the pivotal races ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-10-29 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 3,99 €

Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting even in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-01-18 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 8,49 €

Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-08-12 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,49 €

'The latest book from the inestimable and seemingly irrepressible Simon Warren.' thewashingmachinepost From the Gavia Pass to Mount Etna, from The Stelvio to The Zoncalan, these climbs are legends in Italy and the building blocks of the Giro d'Italia. Technology may advance, training and diet may evolve, but these world-famous mountains are a constant. They have witnessed triumph and despair, courage and heartache, they are where champions are made and where dreams are shattered. And yes, the gr...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-04-18 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 3,99 €

'We'll all recognise ourselves somewhere in this book' Emily Chappell 'On e of the best cycling books of all time' BookAuthority A joyful dose of inspiration that every cyclist, from rookie to randonneur, can take something valuable from' Road.cc If your bike has become your biggest escape of late, Back in the Frame from award-winning blogger, Lady Vélo, is the book for you Jools Walker rediscovered cycling aged 28 after a decade-long absence from the saddle. When she started blogging about her...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-05-23 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 3,99 €

** WINNER OF THE CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2019 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS** So how do you win a bike race? Riding as fast as you could for as long as you could was the main tactic in the early days of road racing when Grand Tours could be won by hours. Now a minute’s delay thanks to a puncture could ruin a rider’s chances over a three-week race and the sport is described as nothing less than chess on wheels. The intricacies and complexities of cycling are what makes it s...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-06-07 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,49 €

It's time we all stopped whining and learned a thing or two from The Toughest Cyclists Ever. Including: Stephen Roche, whose cure for exhaustion was to go up a gear and fight harder, all the way to the ambulance. Eddy Merckx, who hurt himself so badly in breaking the Hour record that, he estimated, he shortened his career by a year. Beryl Burton, who crushed her (male) rival's morale with the offer of a piece of liquorice, before speeding past to victory. Nicole Cooke and Edwig Van Hooydonck, wh...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-06-01 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 5,99 €

lanterne rouge ( French | noun) : The competitor who finishes last in the Tour de France Froome, Wiggins, Merckx – we know the winners of the Tour de France, but what about the men who finish last? Lanterne Rouge tells the forgotten, often inspirational and occasionally absurd stories of the last-placed rider . We learn of stage winners and former yellow jerseys who tasted life at the other end of the bunch; the breakaway leader who stopped for a bottle of wine and then took a wrong turn; the ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-04-17 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 11,99 €

The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall. In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the truth. She was one of the few media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to be granted extended one-on-one access to the most famous pariah in sports. At the center of Cycle of Lies is Armstrong himsel...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-03-04 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 10,99 €

Even the biggest cycling fan can one day wake up to find that he has lost his faith Bad Blood is the story of Jeremy Whittle's journey from unquestioning fan to Tour de France insider and confirmed sceptic. It's about broken friendships and a sport divided; about having to choose sides in the war against doping; about how galloping greed and corporate opportunism have led the Tour de France to the brink of destruction. Part personal memoir, part devastating exposé of a sport torn apart by drugs...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-05-27 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 12,99 €

The inspirational inside story from the 2018 Tour de France and Sports Personality of the Year winner "This year G was the strongest rider, and he finally had Lady Luck on his side. An unstoppable combination" Chris Froome "I understood what Geraint's win meant: for him, for me, for the team, and for Wales, too" Dave Brailsford "Wow!" Thierry Henry For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike race in the world: twice an Olympic gold medallis...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-11-01 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 5,49 €

'Dr Freeman is a man of great integrity and kindness. His care has helped me through the good times and the hardships of competing in the highest level of sport' - Sir Bradley Wiggins As team doctor for British Cycling and Team Sky, Dr Richard Freeman treated the world's most successful cyclists, such as Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins, Laura Trott and Victoria Pendleton. From 2009 until 2017, the 'Doc' was part of the team who became national heroes with Olympic and Tour de France victori...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-07-03 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 3,99 €

'Chris is someone I've always looked up to. A true role model.' - Geraint Thomas, 2018 Tour de France winner An invaluable manual for cyclists of all ages, experience and ability, which will help them achieve peak performance. Full of practical advice, this book includes information on: Strength conditioning to improve your performance Targeted training plans to focus on strengthening weaker areas Bike care & maintenance Riding different terrains & environments Road cycling skills & ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-09-20 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 3,99 €

La quinta tappa del Tour de France non è un pezzo di strada come tanti altri. I ciclisti la temono, i tifosi più esperti la aspettano con estremo interesse: è un banco di prova decisivo, quello che divide lo spaccone dal giocatore di squadra, lo sportivo dal campione. È una tappa che non ammette errori e facilonerie, perché riprende in parte il tragitto della Parigi-Roubaix e alcuni dei suoi rischiosissimi tratti di pavé: delle vere e proprie montagne in miniatura, pronte a sbalzarti dalla...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-04-30 9,99 €

The inspiring story of one man's record-breaking cycle around the world. On Monday 18th September 2017, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes earlier he set off from the same point, beginning his attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Covering more than 18,000 miles and cycling through some of the harshest conditions one man and his bicycle can endure, Mark made history. He smashed two Guinness World Records and beat the previo...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-07-26 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,99 €

This time tackling the green hills of Wales, Simon Warren picks out 75 more challenges in the third book of our UK regional Cycling Climbs series. Expanding on previously documented routes as seen in bestselling 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs as well as over 50% new material, it's clear the UK still has lots to offer in terms of exciting cycling climbs. Countless incredible climbs span the entire length of Wales; peppered across the exposed peaks of Snowdonia and nestling among the tangled lan...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-07-07 10,99 €

Cet ouvrage retrace l'histoire du Tour, depuis sa création en 1903, sur fond d'affaire Dreyfus. Pour la première fois, il se fonde sur les données statistiques du groupe de presse qui organise l'épreuve, afin de mieux comprendre les évolutions de long terme de la course et retrace, par la même occasion, plus d'un siècle d'histoire économique, sociale et culturelle de la France. Cette édition numérique reprend, à l'identique, l'édition originale de 2014. Pourquoi le Tour de France est...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-11-26 8,49 €

Emily Chappell was never meant to be a cycle courier. She planned to earn her living using her mind rather than her legs. She thought it'd be a useful stopgap while searching for a 'real' job. Today, six years on, she's still pedalling. 'It's my most enduring love affair; the career that's shaped my life, made me what I am, and entirely derailed any hope of a normal existence.' As she flies through the streets of the capital, dancing with the traffic, Chappell records the pain and pleasure-both ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-01-05 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,99 €

Het voorbije wielerjaar met Thijs Zonneveld doornemen is een genot. Hij kent de renners en weet waar hij het over heeft. In Wilco Kelderman bestaat niet geeft hij daarvan meermalen blijk. `Wees zuinig op onze talenten lijkt hij te willen zeggen, als ultieme smeekbede voor een glorieuze toekomst van het Nederlandse wielrennen. Zonnevelds hart klopt ervoor. Of het nou gaat om het beschermen van de coureurs tegen de almaar grotere invloed van de organisatoren en sponsoren, of om de strijd tegen het...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-11-06 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 11,99 €

A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself. Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road b...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-05-01 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,49 €

'A master psychologist - cycling's answer to Brian Clough.' MARK CAVENDISH The inside story of Mark Cavendish's Rainbow Jersey Winning World Title of 2011 Twenty five years ago, British road cycling was in the doldrums: today it is at the top of the world thanks to Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas and the sprinter who has bridged all their careers - the Manx Missile, Mark Cavendish. British cycling has become that rare beast, a story of sporting success built from the bottom up. Pro...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-10-15 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,99 €

The Design Museum brings you fifty bicycles that changed the world we live in! The bicycle is the world's most popular form of transport. From the penny-farthing, the Dandy-horse and the Velocipede the design of the bicycle has evolved over the decades both in terms of style and technology. From high-performance cycles to practical run-arounds, conceptual bikes to commercial models, Alex Newson explores the 50 most important, pivotal bicycles from around the world. The bicycle is the world's mos...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-09-02 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 3,99 €

‘British cyclist. It used to be an oxymoron, a sort of silliness. Like French Cricket’ Ned Boulting has noticed something. It’s to do with bikes. They’re everywhere. And so are their riders. Some of these riders seem to be sporting sideburns and a few of them are winning things. Big things. Now Ned wants to know how on earth it came to this. And what, exactly is 'this'. In On the Road Bike, Ned Boulting asks how Britain became so obsessed with cycling. His journey takes him from the velo...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-05-30 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,49 €

Few British schoolchildren of the seventies can have been as obsessed with the Tour de France as William Fotheringham, who smuggled copies of Miroir du Cyclisme into lessons to read inside his books. He saw the Tour for the first time in 1984, avidly following that year's race on television in the Normandy village where he lived. Since joining the Guardian in 1989, William Fotheringham has been at the forefront of British cycling journalism. Here he reflects on the events of the last twenty-thre...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-06-06 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 15,99 €

Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow. THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance. Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period. THE RULES is their Bible. It is an essential part of every cyclist's arsenal - whether you're grudgingly cycling to work in the rain or gearing up to be the next Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy or Victoria Pendleton. Rule #12: The ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-06-20 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 3,99 €

This is not a 100,000-word, minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow account of the 2011 Tour de France. This is not the story of Cadel Evans. This is not the story of Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck, or Bradley Wiggins. And it's not even the story of Mark Cavendish. (Although he is in it quite a lot.) This is the story of the lesser-known heroes; the Johnny Hoogerlands, the Thomas Voecklers, the hitchhikers, the maniac press drivers, Norbert Dentressangle and the greatest ever Tour de France*. I was there...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-03-01 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 4,49 €

In this updated edition of the highly acclaimed Tour de France , Graeme Fife sets the 2015 race in the context of the event's remarkable history, which stretches back to July 1903. Named one of the top 5 sports books of the year by both the Times and the Independent , this meticulously researched guide has a pacy narrative which paints an irresistible portrait of this extraordinary competition and a colourful picture of the men who have given the Tour its enduring universal appeal. Tour de Franc...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-09-15 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 12,99 €

Al sinds 2002 is De kale berg hét boek voor iedereen die de Mont Ventoux wil beklimmen, met of zonder fiets, op skeelers, alleen of met een groep. Aan de 1912 meter hoge berg in de Provence worden mythische kwalificaties toegedicht. De kale berg bevat verhalen over de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de Mont Ventoux, de flora en fauna, de omliggende dorpen en stadjes en natuurlijk de beklimmingen in de Tour de France. Daarnaast komen de theorie en praktijk van het trainen, trainingsschema’s en prakt...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-09-14 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 6,99 €

The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience, whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights of professional sport, the brutality of the modern battlefield, the casual violence of the criminal world, the mind-blowing frontiers of science, or the excesses of rock 'n' roll, high finance and H...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-07-07 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 2,49 €

What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling? Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London to Calcutta. He encountered drunken priests, drag queens and gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers and people building for a different type of future. He also found a spirit of unbelievable kindness and generosity that convinced him th...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-06-02 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 10,99 €

Greg LeMond, 'L'Americain': fresh-faced, prodigious newcomer. This is supposed to be his year. Bernard Hinault, 'The Badger': aggressive, headstrong, five-time winner of the Tour. He has pledged his unwavering support to his team mate, LeMond. The team is everything in cycling, so the world watches, stunned, as LeMond and Hinault's explosive rivalry plays out over three high-octane weeks. Slaying the Badger relives the adrenaline and agony as LeMond battles to become the first American to win th...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-05-26 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,49 €

Welche Voraussetzungen benötigt man eigentlich, um möglichst schnell Rad zu fahren? Der entscheidende Faktor ist natürlich die physische Leistungsfähigkeit des Fahrers. Ohne seine entsprechenden konditionellen Voraussetzungen sind alle weiteren Gesichtspunkte ohne größeren Belang. Und trotzdem: Um richtig schnell zu sein, bedarf es etwas mehr: Denn bei gleicher physischer Leistungsfähigkeit wird immer der Athlet gewinnen, der die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten, die sich neben dem Training b...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-02-05 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 5,99 €

As seen on TV The bicycle is one of mankind's greatest inventions - and the most popular form of transport in history. Robert Penn has ridden one most days of his adult life. In his late 20s, he pedalled 40,000 kilometres around the world. Yet, like cyclists everywhere, the utilitarian bikes he currently owns don't even hint at this devotion. Robert needs a new bike, a bespoke machine that reflects how he feels when he's riding it - like an ordinary man touching the gods. It's All About the Bike...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-07-29 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,49 €