Cycling's Golden Age: Heroes of the Postwar Era, 1946-1967, The Horton Collection
by Brett Horton, Shelly Horton, Owen Mulholland
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Author: Brett Horton, Owen Mulholland, Shelly HortonForeword: Eddy Merckx
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-29
ISBN: 1931382875
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: VeloPress
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Book Review: My golden age re-lived
Summary: 5 Stars
As an old wrinkly who remembers most of the people and events (1955-1976)in this book, I was pleasantly surprised to read this book as it gave me a refershingly new slant on the events that took place during that period.
It is a wonderful insight into the lives of most of my boyhood cycling heroes which doesn't just list their acheivements in the usual way, i.e. detailed race results with endless distance versus time charts. As someone who has lost interest in the sport since the 1980's due to the onset of chemically assisted prowess,if the press is to be believed,I really enjoy reading books such as this one which covers the Tour De France from the late 1940's to 1967 and I really envy the author his privileged personal contacts with some of my favourite cyclists of that period. I still enjoy watching the exploits of the riders in the current classic cycle races on TV but I can't conjure up the same sense of wonderment about the sport that I had in my early days of watching and even taking part in it ( I can't quite accept the idea or the look of plastic bikes! )so I was thrilled to receive this book and add it my collection of similar books about the subject. Well done Owen Mulholland!
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