Tim Hilton, who has been an art critic for the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday, owns 12 bikes and cycles more than 10,000 miles a year. This book is a memoir of his discovery of cycling as 'an unhappy Birmingham Communist child' in the 1950s, the chronicle of a continuing passion, and a history of the continental European obsession with the sport.

HarperCollins | paperback |ISBN: 9780006532286