Old and New Quality Reading

For more depth than magazines and more comfort than web browsing - books are best. Here are a few that you may enjoy (or hate!) but some will certainly be very hard to find.

Pelham Books published a series of cycling books in the early 1970’s some of which were - Cycling Year Book by N G Henderson, 1971, Ref 7207 0461 8 Cycling in the Sixties by David Saunders Continental Cycle Racing by N G Henderson Cycling’s Circus by Chas Messenger, 1971 Conquer the World by Chas Messenger, 1968 Cycling Crazy by Chas Messenger, 1970 Cycling - Lands End to John o’Groats by Alan J Ray, 1971, Ref 7207 0505 3 The Bicycle in Life, Love, War and Literature by Seamus McGonagle Where there’s a wheel by Chas Messenger, 1972 This International Cycling Guide provided an annual review of all aspects of cycling not just racing. It was edited by Nicholas Crane and published by the Tantivy Press of London. I have seen the 1982, 3 and 4 editions but it started in 1980 and may have gone on for years longer. The 1984 edition can be traced via ISBN 0-900730-12-9 and USLCCC # 79-8736 Any really serious racing fan of the European racing scene really needs to get themselves copies of this series of year books that start from 1985-6. The first edition contained 600+ pages of detailed facts and figures covering professional, amateur, junior and veteran races - road, track and off-road. The text is in Dutch but that does not detract from the depth of information provided. The 1985-6 edition was published by Elmar Sport with Herman Harens, Evert de Rooij and Wencel Maresch as editors; ISBN 90 6120 500 X. Checking the web for secondhand copies, all the editions from 1985 to date were found; with prices starting at just 4 euros. The official Wieler Jaarboek website is here..

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Cycling Books
Gone but not ...
ICS Magazine
ICS Magazine 1969
ICS Magazine 1970
ICS Magazine 1971
ICS Magazine 1972
ICS Magazine 1973
ICS Magazine 1975
Pre-war Magazines
Race Programmes
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