Charming village halls, selfless volunteers, race day raffles, stopwatches and busy dual carriageways. This book has it all, capturing the essence of a typical day at a UK time-trial event including all the quirky topics the British-invented sport brings. The contents will appeal to anyone who aspires to become involved in the dark art of time-trialling, or to the very experienced rider, organiser or volunteer. At a UK time-trial there will be no overhead banners at the finish, open air podiums, live entertainment or dancing girls. Time-trialling is the purest form of cycle sport and always will be. It has survived on these shores without fuss since 1895 and long may it live on that way.

This is a procurement textbook that does not attempt to compete with, or cover the same ground, to any extent, that existing procurement textbooks cover. Rather, we have taken the view that a text was needed to provide what might be termed a detailed overview of and introduction to, the fundamentals of procurement