A fantastic book for free!

[Andrew G]

If you have any interest in cycling, which I kind of guess you do, or like a good travelogue then this book is for you. It is a fantastic read and full of lots of good old fashioned daring do.

Richard and Nicholas Crane's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth".

They cycled this route...
[img]http://web.archive.org/web/20051030124232/www.koopmann.lightup.net/crane/overall_map.jpg[/img]
on two racing bikes on a lightweight (as in chopsticks cut in half and never carrying more than 1 litre of water - PVT would be proud) tour over this terrain
[img]http://web.archive.org/web/20051030125925/www.koopmann.lightup.net/crane/chart_altitude_profile.jpg[/img]

[img]http://web.archive.org/web/20051030125631/www.koopmann.lightup.net/crane/picture_26.jpg[/img]

The book is free on the web [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20041211045554/http://www.koopmann.lightup.net/crane/][color=#000040]here[/color][/url] and one of the best cycling/travel books I've read. Well worth making use of the office laser printer and binding machine for .

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

That looks like he's stolen Marco's Raleigh Road Ace

[Nick W]

Conti fours seasons I see.

[adrian]

The Cranes must have found it an uplifting experience

[Dombo]

Just read about their bikes. Custom made 753 tubing. Interesting that they reckon with race wheels they'd have tipped the scales at 17.5 lbs - not much more than some medium-top end modern carbon rigs. My half steel/half carbon Lemond is 18.75lbs so probably heavier than most in the CR peloton (and obviously the reason I keep getting spat out the back of the 19s )

[Andrew G]

Marco I did make merry with the works laser and can bring a printed copy for you to borrow (would like it back after as it took ages to print).

Unfortunately chapter 8 seems to have a fault with the link so there is a little bit of the journey missed but only a little bit and it doesn't spoil the read.

[quote="adrian"]The Cranes must have found it an uplifting experience

[kieran]

[quote="marco"]753 that is nuts! they must have had some real good trust in the raleigh builders at the time.
We used to lust after bikes like that!



Its crazy to think he walks around Britain's coast now with an umbrella for BBC!

[Andrew G]

They both have always done endurance and insanity based things. Richard, who writes the book in the main with diary extracts from Nick, had previously "Run the Himalayas" and Bikes up Kilimanjaro" (sp?) was before this.

Yes they're mad, but fantastic at the same time.

[woody]

My wife gave me this book for my birthdy yesterday.

She found it on amazon for £15.00!!

No spoilers please. (I guess they did it.)