The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold

Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail

Tim Moore

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Yellow Jersey Press
31 July 2017

Sports & outdoor recreation; Cycling; Travel writing

From the author of French Revolutions and Gironimo! comes a hideously over-ambitious challenge on doomed machinery. Tim Moore cycles the length of the old Iron Curtain on a shopping bike.

'Bill Bryson on two wheels' Independent

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike.

Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off at the Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland.

Haunted throughout the journey by the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse - at a time of ratcheting East-West tension.

After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.

By: Tim Moore
Imprint: Yellow Jersey Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 245g
ISBN: 9780224100212
ISBN 10: 0224100211
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 31 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tim Moore's writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of Gironimo!, French Revolutions, Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps, Nul Points, I Believe In Yesterday and You Are Awful (But I Like You). He lives in London.

Reviews for The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail

One hundred per cent self-inflicted ... Beyond stupid ... It's hilarious. -- Adrian Chiles Radio 5 Live Bill Bryson on two wheels. Independent The world's funniest travel writer. Observer A good, entertaining writer, laugh-out-loud funny in parts. Irish Independent It's a hoot. -- Michael Kerr Daily Telegraph, Book of the Year It's a hoot. -- Michael Kerr Daily Telegraph, Book of the Year