'An exceptional read' - Paul Kimmage, author of Rough Ride A
meditative love letter to the sport of cycling, THE ART OF CYCLING
traces the journey of a former professional racer regaining his
love for the sport and shows how cycling can shed new light on
age-old questions of selfhood, meaning, and purpose. Interweaving
cycling, philosophy, and personal narrative, THE ART OF CYCLING
provides readers with a deep understanding into the highs and lows
of being an elite athlete, the limits of approaching any sporting
pursuit from a strictly rational perspective, and how the
philosophical and often counterintuitive lessons derived from sport
can be applied to other areas of life. Accessible to everyone from
the hardened racer to the casual fan, THE ART OF CYCLING engages
the history of thought through the lens of cycling to undermine
much of what is typically thought of as "intellectual", breathing
new vitality into life, and countering society's obsession with
progress and drive towards the abstract, detached, and virtual.
'Cycling is an extended form of thinking and The Art of Cycling is
a dazzling trip on both counts. Taking a racing line between
Descartes and Nietzsche, Moser and Merckx, James Hibbard dismantles
what it means to be a cyclist and puts it together again in
thought-provoking ways - and, like a Zen master or cyclist in the
mountains, achieves moments of transcendence' Max Leonard, author
of Higher Calling 'When you "draft" in cycling, you tuck yourself
behind a lead rider and let him or her take the wind and pull you
along. This is what one gets to do in reading Hibbard's The Art of
Cycling - draft off a strong writer and thinker through a
meditation on a very basic, but incredibly beautiful, method of
going from here to there at high speed. Drafting can be dangerous
if the lead rider is unsteady, but Hibbard proves a reliable guide.
The Art of Cycling is worth the ride.' John Kaag, author of Hiking
with Nietzsche
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