Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy (Audiobook)

from Shrike58

A generally witty account of a man coming to grips with the seedier aspects of the sport that he loves while at the same time doing something very hard to get to grips with his sense of mid-life crisis. Having not read any of Moore's earlier books I can't say how it stacks up against those storie...

from PDCRead

The Giro. It is Italy's own grand tour and takes place at the end of May and has been held since 1909. The 1914 Giro was one of the toughest that ever took place with only eight, yes eight, finishers at the end of the Tour from a start number of 81. Some of the stages were in excess of 400km long...

from malcrf

Very disappointing. The Stephen Mangan read extracts on Radio 4's Book of the Week fooled me into thinking that this would be witty and informative both about Tim's own journey and the 1914 Giro D'Italia. Instead Mr Moore appears to be most interested in himself, rather than Italy, the route he r...

from Fluffyblue

Absolutely brilliant account of Tim Moore's bike ride around the most terrible Giro of 1914. Tim's writing is hilarious and I laughed out loud many, many times.

from Fluffyblue

Absolutely brilliant account of Tim Moore's bike ride around the most terrible Giro of 1914. Tim's writing is hilarious and I laughed out loud many, many times.