{"product_id":"gironimo-riding-the-very-terrible-1914-tour-of-italy-9781681771281","title":"Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwelve years after Tim Moore toiled around the route of the Tour de France, he senses his achievement being undermined by the truth about \"Horrid Lance.\" His rash response is to take on a fearsome challenge from an age of untarnished heroes: the notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia. History's most appalling bike race was an ordeal of 400-kilometer stages, filled with cataclysmic storms, roads strewn with nails, and even the loss of an eye by one competitor--and it was all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf the eighty-one riders who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. To truly capture the essence of what these riders endured a century ago, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike, some maps, and an alarming period outfit topped off with a pair of blue-lensed welding goggles. As Moore rides up and over the Alps and then down to the Adriatic (with only wine corks for brakes), \u003cem\u003eGironimo  \u003c\/em\u003eis an adventure that is by turns recklessly incompetent, bold, beautiful, and madly inspiring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoore, Tim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eTim Moore'\u003c\/b\u003es writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFrench Revolutions \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGironimo!\u003c\/i\u003e in addition to four other books. He lives in London.","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50676641661202,"sku":"9781681771281","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_46184302-f521-4490-822b-29c45e088a43.jpg?v=1733885552","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gironimo-riding-the-very-terrible-1914-tour-of-italy-9781681771281","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}