Reviews for The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America's Jazz-Age Sport

The average rating for The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America's Jazz-Age Sport based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-12 00:00:00 Nancy Panicucci Roma Not every popular sporting event survives...

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-28 00:00:00 Mary Ann Smith THE LONG SEASON b Bruno Schull is often advertised as an amateur's view of bicycle racing. However the book goes further than that by juxtaposing his training and racing against the 1995 professional season in Europe. It was the year that Miguel Indurain won his fifth and final tour victory and the year Fabio Casartelli died on the tour. Schull tells of his training in the bay area of California with 4 close friends, his classes at UC Berkeley, his girlfriend and parents who are tired of his obsessive cycling. There are also sections on his training in Italy, his suspicions of the pros using drugs, his tactics during racing and deadly crashes. While all of this sounds like it should be interesting, the tone of the book is flat and joyless. Even as a cyclist and racing fan, I wanted to tell him to give up some of the cycling and live a little. For amateur racing, of the books that I have read so far I would recommend ROADIE: THE MISUNDERSTOOD WORLD OF A BIKE RACER by Jamie Smith and THE GAMES WERE COMING by Michael Anthony over this book. .