Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just open your current read to a random page and share a few sentences. Be careful not to include spoilers!
The Bike Snob has for years written a wildly successful blog of which I am a fan. This is his first book. There has since been a second; I am behind. Here’s your teaser for the day, randomly selected:
Cyclocross is a strange, painful, and addictive form of racing involving dismounting and carrying your bike over obstacles on courses consisting of both dirt and pavement. In a way racing cyclocross is like freebasing cycling, since the races are short but incredibly intense, and they manage to distill pretty much every element of cycling into forty-five minutes. Consequently, like crack in the eighties, it becomes more and more popular in this country every year.
There’s your cyclocross lesson for the day. He gives a good description; it is indeed intense, painful, and addictive! This is also a pretty representative sample of Bike Snob’s irreverent approach. I like it.
What are you reading today?
Filed under: tuesday teasers | Tagged: bikes, nonfiction |
pagesofjulia 
Too intense for me, but sounds like a fun read. I’m hoping to see the cycling during the Olympics. They go near my flat.
Awesome! Check out the track racing if you can (would have to be on television unless you have tickets) – that’s the most exciting, in my opinion. Although being on site for the road races would be outrageous, too!
That sounds excruciating. I like cycling, but it’s the carry the bike part that would kill me.
Here’s mine: http://tobisummers.blogspot.com/2012/07/teaser-tuesday-72412.html
yea it’s rough 🙂
Sounds interesting but not really my cup of tea. I am violently opposed to exercise in all forms. My teasers are from The Line Between Here and Gone by Andrea Kane and Storm by Brigid Kemmerer. Happy reading!
I can’t even ride a bicycle, ugh. Here’s mine: