Getting Started in Road Cycling
Rapha Handbook 01 – Getting Started in Road Cycling
by Guy Andrews
with Illustrations by Laura Quick
Rapha Handbooks are a series of books designed to help cyclists find their way into cycling. Informative, inclusive and specifically written to demystify the world of cycling, all the Rapha Handbooks are individually illustrated to help reinforce and add some fun to the real world advice from many respected and experienced contributors, writers and cyclists.
The first in the series, Getting Started in Road Cycling is designed to guide you through the beginning of your journey as a cyclist. The book features practical advice from an impressive cast of expert contributors. There’s riding tips from Giro d’Italia winner Andy Hampsten and cyclocross star Helen Wyman while expert mechanic Sam Humpheson provides guidance on maintenance.
Carefully collated by Guy Andrews and accompanied by the marvellous illustrations of Laura Quick, the advice answers the frequently asked questions of those new to the sport. How to choose a bike? What to wear? How to fix a puncture? What’s a chamois pad? This book will be the antidote to much of what may be bewildering and help get you out on the road day after day.
“Enjoyable contributions from a host of well-known names – a little tip or nugget of information from the likes of Gary Fisher, Emily Chappell, Isla Rowntree, Andy Hampsten, and dozens more”
“I’ve read through this slim, informative volume at least twice, desperately trying to think of a question i could ask that either Guy failed to answer, or Laura hadn’t illustrated. At the point of writing this review, I’ve failed to come up with a single one”
About the Author
Guy Andrews has worked for over twenty years as a cycling journalist, author and editor. Before that he had been a bike mechanic, teacher and, in his spare time, a very amateur bike racer. As a journalist he has worked as a contributor to magazines and newspapers and was a former editor of Cycling Today magazine and the founding editor of cycling website RoadcyclingUK. In 2005 he founded and co-published cycle racing reportage magazine Rouleur, which he edited for almost ten years. During those years he also edited several critically acclaimed books that were published worldwide. Guy has also written several books on the subject of bicycles, notably; The Custom Road Bike (Laurence King) and Bike Mechanic: Tales from the Road and the Workshop (Bloomsbury), The Cyclist’s Training Manual (Bloomsbury) Road Bike Maintenance (Bloomsbury) and more recently a photographic book with Magnum Photography Agency; Magnum Cycling (Thames and Hudson). In 2016 he published his biography of American 1980s Tour de France star; Greg Lemond: Yellow Jersey Racer (Bluetrain, Velopress, Bloomsbury and Rapha). He now co-runs Bluetrain, an independent book publishing company that he co-founded in 2015. He’s an avid collector of vintage photo-reportage magazines, especially those on cycling and still rides his bike on most days, but only when the sun comes out.
About the illustrator
Laura Quick is an award winning illustrator and author with a particular interest in observing everyday life. Laura’s work is all created by hand – Old fashioned paste and blade, pen and ink, paper and paint. She often collaborates, pushing new concepts and experiences within her specialist area of illustration and design. Her unique sense of humour often coming together with her commercial work for luxury brands, her work is always about the small things and the details, the things we forget to take notice of. Her recent book, The Quick Guide to Parenting, illustrates the trials and wonders of parenthood, it was published by Pavilion in 2016.
Also in this series
Handbook 02 – Longer Rides by Jo Burt
Handbook 03 – The Self Sufficient Cyclist by Guy Kesteven with Illustrations by Aikaterina Paraskevopoulou
Handbook 04 – Exploring Off-Road by Helen Wyman with Illustrations by Laura Quick
Specification
| Dimensions | 185 x 135mm |
| Pagination | 144pp on Arcoprint Milk 100gsm paper |
| Images and text | 4 colour with illustrations |
| Cover | Sewn Flexibound, round spine, H&T bands, belly band in 150gsm Arcoprint Milk |
| Endpapers | Printed PMS on Arcoprint Milk 100gsm paper |
| Published | 2017 by Rapha Editions |
| ISBN | 978-1-912164-02-8 |