The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold

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<p><b>'Bill Bryson on two wheels'<i>Independent</i></b></p><p>Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike.</p><p>Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off at the Arctic winters brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland.</p><p>Haunted throughout the journey by the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse at a time of ratcheting East-West tension.</p><p>After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.</p>

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Tim Moores writing has appeared in the<i>Daily Telegraph,</i>the Observer, the Sunday Times and<i>Esquire</i>. He is the author of<i>Gironimo!,</i><i>French Revolutions, Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps,</i><i>Nul Points,</i><i>I Believe In Yesterday</i>and<i>You Are Awful (But I Like You).</i>He lives in London.

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