Gironimo!

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<p><b>A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself.</b></p><p>Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back.</p><p>Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike with wine corks for brakes, some maps and an alarming period outfit topped off with a pair of blue-lensed welding goggles.</p><p>From the Alps to the Adriatic the pair relive the bike race in all its misery and glory, on an adventure that is by turns bold, beautiful and recklessly incompetent.</p>

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<p>Having ridden the route of the Tour de France in<i>French Revolutions</i>, led a donkey on a 500-mile pilgrimage in<i>Spanish Steps</i>and driven round the worst places in Britain in an Austin Maestro for<i>You Are Awful (But I Like You)</i>,<b>Tim Moore</b>can loook back on a towering career in misadventure.</p><p><i>Gironimo!</i>, his latest and most imposing pedal-powered endeavour, is a story of predictable over-ambition trumped by frankly staggering over-achievement. Moore lives in London with his wife and three children, and still wears those welding goggles at Christmas.</p>

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