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Vuelta Skelter - Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain (Paperback)
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Vuelta Skelter - Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain (Paperback)
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Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's
Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a
Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the
Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration
camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the
civil war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious
cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with
Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road bike with the
great man's name plastered all over it, set off to retrace the
4,409km route of his 1941 triumph - in the midst of a global
pandemic. What follows is a tale of brutal heat and lonely roads,
of glory, humiliation, and then a bit more humiliation. Along the
way Tim recounts the civil war's still-vivid tragedies, and finds
the gregarious but impressively responsible locals torn between
welcoming their nation's only foreign visitor, and bundling him and
his filthy bike into a vat of antiviral gel.
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