The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold : Adventures Riding the Iron Curtain

from MiaCulpa

You can always rely on a Tim Moore book to provide the odd chuckle and while the rationale behind "The Cyclist who went out in the cold" (someone older than me rides an old East German shopping bicycle ten thousand kilometres around the old Iron Curtin) strikes me as asking for trouble, particula...

from PDCRead

Growing up as a teenager in the 1980's the cold war and the Soviet threat was very real indeed. The whole system imploded at the end of that decade and the Iron Curtain that separated Western Europe from Communist bloc for decades was drawn aside. This physical and ideological border stretched fr...

from Shrike58

This is my second go-around with Tim Moore but I also suspect that this is his last insane bike adventure as short of riding the length of the Great Wall of China on a unicycle it's hard to imagine how he's going to top this. To a large degree this is much less of a deranged trip mostly for the h...

from DoToBu89

What was humorous about this book (putting a middle-aged, middle class Brit on a shoddy bicycle across eastern Europe) was also its downfall. The author appeared to see very little beyond tower blocks, forests, stray dogs and the stares of the locals. At points it felt like the author had nothing...

from TheYodamom

Cycling insanity through snow, ice, angry villagers, drunken drivers, award worthy pot holes, language failures, dark ruins, mad dogs, hunger and extreme physical exhaustion. Insane it might have been, but it was the best non trip I've taken. The historical knowledge and visions were better than ...