Froome's autobiography... counting the hours!

Can't wait... 
I mean, anyone really interested in his upbringing as a privileged white boy in Kenya, then the sad chapter of his illness, the cure and the consecration as world's best in Paris?
No dirt, no grit...
I'd rather eat a bag of microwave cooked rice...

I mean, anyone really interested in his upbringing as a privileged white boy in Kenya, then the sad chapter of his illness, the cure and the consecration as world's best in Paris?
No dirt, no grit...
I'd rather eat a bag of microwave cooked rice...
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Ten Dam has just published a book. If it ends up translated into English, would you read that?
Perhaps we need a dedicated "books I won't be buying" thread...
LOL
Here you are then
He can't really eat that. It's just a photo.
"Ten Dam has just published a book. If it ends up translated into English, would you read that"
I would. Sometimes the lesser known riders have more interesting things to say and have no need to sugarcoat anything to live up to their media image.
Isn't that boil in the bag rice?
What you want is something like this...
Or this...
(Takes slightly longer at 3.5 minutes, but it's a fusion, so it must be better...)
They re working on that apparently. I got the impression that the Dutch know that the UK/US will buy anything with a picture of a bike on at the moment...
- @ddraver
IMO it would be a mistake to focus on the Sky years. They are the least interesting and best known part of the story. How he ended up there and the African years is less known and the better story.
The Sky years have to covered of course but I think Walsh is fascinated by the African upbringing etc backstory. There's a piece in Ned Boulting's essay on this year's Tour the latest Cycling Anthology, where Ned's talking about how muted the UK media and public interest during the course of the Tour seems to be re Froome's progress. Walsh says to him something along the lines of 'The British public are no mugs, Ned, they're not buying this British nationality thing. Its a shame he's not here riding here for Kenya. The first African to win the Tour - now that would be a hell of a story!'
Not so well supported by BC in his early days, as I recall. His Dad was the main man for most of his formative years.
Very dry sense of humour has Sir Chris, which I like. The section about riding the Etape (slowly) in his rainbow stripes was very funny.
Wiggo's post-Tour victory book was utter sh*te.
I agree, there are far to many autobiography's by 20/30 something's.
Ker-Ching
Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
Did you get halfway through before you realised he'd mistaken himself for somebody else?
*Ahem* it was actually a diary.
Carry on.
I think I'll pass on that one..
Although the results speak for themselves, Froome is dull on the bike. Always looking down at the bottom bracket...waiting for the train to leave the station. Yet, freaking Wiggo out, though, was classic.
How do you know he's dull off the bike? There's only one way to find out - read the autobiography
(though he probably is pretty dull; mind you, his missus is another story)
Nobody should be allowed to use a microwave to cook rice, or beans.
Hark at Gordon Ramsey
What constitutes acceptable microwave use? Soup? Baked potatoes? Kittens?
He laid a wooden floor for a mate of mine who was a BC coach back in those days to earn some extra cash!
Edit: Sorry. Not kittens. I meant baked potatoes.
Didnt G's brother or cousin do some roofing for you recently?? Just how small is South Wales???