Cyclopedia: It's All About the Bike

“One of the few books that can genuinely be described as indispensible" —The Washing Machine Post

"[a] fact-filled feast ... Top stuff"  —Sport Magazine

"Fotheringham knows his cycling and loves it."  —Independent

“A humorous yet substantial addition to sports or cycling history collections.” —Library Journal  

"[Fotheringham] has a wry, deft writing style and peppers entries with amusing factoids ... a hard book to put down" —cycling-books.com

"A treasure trove of cycling/bicycling racing facts and anecdotes." —BikeCommuters.com

William Fotheringham has been a racing cyclist on road and track since 1981. He has been cycling correspondent at the Guardian newspaper since 1994 and, since then, has covered the Tour de France for them every year. In 1993 he was launch editor of Cycle Sport magazine, and in 1998 he launched procycling magazine and website. His biography of Tom Simpson, Put Me Back on My Bike, was acclaimed by Vélo magazine as “the best cycling biography ever written.”