
Queens of Pain
Legends and rebels of cycling
Rapha Racing Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 10. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-912164-05-9 (ISBN)
Description
Queens of Pain tells the remarkable and largely unknown tale of women's cycle racing from the 1890's to the early 1990's. From the fin-de-siecle velodromes of North America to the glamour and chaos of the first women's Tour de France, Queens of Pain offers a sweeping panorama of female racing history.
Told through the lives of the great champions, its heroines include stuntwomen and speed skaters, young mothers and teenage tearaways, shop assistants and coal-delivery girls. When prejudice and officialdom denied them one stage they found another: from six-day track racing to epic place to place records, from 12-hour time trials to unofficial road races. The greatly expanded women's racing scene of today is the direct legacy of these pioneering riders whose stories form an unbroken thread since the invention of the bicycle.
Told through the lives of the great champions, its heroines include stuntwomen and speed skaters, young mothers and teenage tearaways, shop assistants and coal-delivery girls. When prejudice and officialdom denied them one stage they found another: from six-day track racing to epic place to place records, from 12-hour time trials to unofficial road races. The greatly expanded women's racing scene of today is the direct legacy of these pioneering riders whose stories form an unbroken thread since the invention of the bicycle.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
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Monochrome colours
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
690 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912164-05-9 (9781912164059)
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Isabel Best is a freelance writer based in Paris. She writes on a range of cultural subjects for mostly British newspapers and magazines. In cycling she has contributed to Procycling, Rouleur and Cyclingnews.com amongst others and is co-author of Le Tour 100, published by Octopus. A keen cyclist herself, Isabel has ridden many cyclosportives in the Alps and Pyrenees, has endured a rain-swept Paris-Brest-Paris and toured through
Japan and Taiwan braving snowstorms and typhoons.
Japan and Taiwan braving snowstorms and typhoons.
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