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| Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson | 
 enlarge | Author: William Fotheringham
Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 80194
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 242
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0224061879
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780224061872
ASIN: 0224061879
Publication Date: June 5, 2003
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 The best Biography I have ever read September 8, 2002
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
Although only twelve years old at the time, I still vividly remember seeing the news of Tom Simpson's death on TV. This is strange because I wasn't a cycling fan and I can't remember seeing the TV news of any of the other historic events of the time like JFK being shot (and we're all suppossed to remember where we were when this happened), Luther King's death, Perfumo, or even the man on the moon. So why did Tom Simpson stick in my mind like nothing else? I didn't really know but this book seemed to be to a must read to try and find out. I now know. Fotheringham's excellent account of the life (and most importantly - the times) of Tom Simpson is an excellent account. It is incredibly well researched, engrossing, entertaining and yet onbjective and dispassionate. This books captures the strengths and the flaws in Simpson's character but left me with a fascination of the man and answered my question as to why his death has stuck in my mind for so long. This is probably the best biography I have ever read.
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