Cover of Jonathan Vaughters’ biography, One Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

March 2026 #chopsbooks #bookstack

Only one book finished this month.

Another cycling biography but a really good one. Vaughters was a pro cyclist at peak drug use time and has some interesting insights into that period. He’s made mistakes but he’s very honest about them #cyclingbooks

Right: Richard Moore’s Slaying The Badger was a well written exploration of the tail end of Bernard Hinault’s career and the rise of Greg Lemond which I really enjoyed. I wasn’t really watching cycling when Hinault was around but this made me want to go and find some old footage. Left: Appointment with Death is one of those Agatha Christie stories that was filmed in the 80s with Peter Ustinov playing Poirot. Instead of the Nile or the Orient Express this has the ancient city of Petra as the back drop.

January 2026 #chopsbooks #bookstack

Off and running with my new year reading with a couple of easy comfort reads. Enjoyed both.

#booksky #agathachristie #cyclingbooks

Photo overlooking Lake Superior on a sunny day. In the foreground, on a small table, sits a half-consumed glass of red wine, a pair of binoculars, and a copy of the book: REVOLUTIONS How Women Changed the World on two Wheels, by Hannah Ross

There are layers of recommendations in this photo.

Find a nice spot to sit by the sea and listen to the waves and grab the binoculars when an interesting bird or boat passes by and sip on some wine and read Revolutions (a fascinating history of women and […]

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Just ordered, The Escape: The Tour, the Cyclist and Me by
David Walsh and Pippa York. I’m hoping it’ll be a very good read. #cycling #cyclingbooks