Boulting's Vélosaurus A Linguistic Tour De France

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Publisher's Synopsis

Find yourself confused, nodding along when a rouleur relates how le biscuit was effrité (crumbled)? How today they're feeling Angers (past caring)?

Fear no more, for Boulting's Velosaurus will illuminate, enlighten and, frankly, mislead.

In his Velosaurus, ITV Tour de France commentator and cycling writer Ned Boulting provides the ultimate lexicon of nonsense terminology surrounding the esteemed Tour de France. Featuring essential vocabulary like Alpe (an Alp), panache (riding with doomed flamboyance, conscious of the need to renew one's contract), moutarde (any race that ends, begins or passes through the city of Dijon) and maillot (a jumper, obviously), Boulting's Velosaurus is the ideal companion to all things peloton for linguistically-challenged fans of non-automotive two-wheeled sport.

'Deserves to be on any Tour de France fan's shelf.' Cycle

Book information

ISBN: 9780224100649
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Yellow Jersey Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 796.620944
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 237
Weight: 346g
Height: 205mm
Width: 132mm
Spine width: 24mm