bradley wiggins autobiography

jimycooper
jimycooper Posts: 740
edited January 2009 in The bottom bracket
baught it for myself yesterday, and i completely hooked!!! havent put it down.

anyone else enjoy it?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Nearly finished it. A good read...
  • Tonymufc
    Tonymufc Posts: 1,016
    Yep read it aswell. I did it in 31/2 days. Thought it was really good.
  • Ricardo H
    Ricardo H Posts: 167
    got it for a christmas pressie but not started it yet
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Got it for myself (well, got it for my dad for xmas but he went and bought it himself so kept my copy). Haven't started reading it properly yet - it's on the pile with about 5 others - but I spent about half an hour in the book shop flicking through it and reading a few pages. Looking forward to it.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    I found the first chapter interesting and the rest of it pretty average.

    I'm not a fan of Brad's especially so perhaps that's why.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    not having a go, but whats there not to be a fan of?
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Ricardo H wrote:
    got it for a christmas pressie but not started it yet

    +1 Got it from my Sister who has to take to work to give to his Mum to get him to sign it for me 8)
  • JC.152
    JC.152 Posts: 645
    ive still got to read it after I won a signed one in a competition....


    ...not that I'm showing off
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Not to be a dick, but i've been put off my club mates who've read this. Apparently he pretty much whines about everything for the majority of the book.

    Is this true?
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    he just tells the truth about how his dad left him and has a go at him, and you could say he's whineing when he's down after athens, but apart from that its about his family and his racing.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    I got this as a present for xmas too. Liked the first 2 chapters, but stupidly left it on the plane on the way skiing along with a copy of Cycling Plus. Was most upset.
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    I spent all the time waiting for The Good Bit... but then I reached the end of the book before it arrived. It was okayyyyyy I suppose - I wasn't sure what the purpose of the book was, maybe a big Sorry / Thank You letter to his wife perhaps? In that context yes a good read.

    He glossed over so many things that interested me like what's it like to ride the Tour or the Giro, as if he was in a hurry to finish the writing. No pausing for detail to give a flavour of what was going on.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    i see where you're coming from but i really like his style of writting.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    I am dipping in and out of it. It's OK buuuuut.... the editors should be shot. Never read a book with so many typos/spelling errors. Plenty of "Word spell-check"-type mistakes (correctly spelled word but the wrong word for the context), names of riders wrong, names of Cols wrong. Very poor.

    Incidentally, I got a book today about training for sportives, and they refer on several occasions to "Kenesis" bikes, even when the bike pictured above the text has "Kinesis" written on the frame. How hard can it be?
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    jimycooper wrote:
    i see where you're coming from but i really like his style of writting.

    You mean you really like his ghost-writer's style of writing :wink:
  • FAT_ROB
    FAT_ROB Posts: 116
    Just got home from work, having picked this up at lunchtime, afternoons output... nill

    Stops missed on train due to being hooked.... 3

    Bugger
    Never knowingly past a pie shop!

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  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    afx237vi wrote:
    jimycooper wrote:
    i see where you're coming from but i really like his style of writting.

    You mean you really like his ghost-writer's style of writing :wink:


    i hate books that spent half the time describing the grass outside, and i like the storey told from his perspective even if he could of shared the details of his rear mech with us :wink:

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