An amusing and personal exploration of the austere, nutty soul of British cycling from Ned Boulting, the author of "How I Won The Yellow Jumper."

Ned Boulting has noticed something aboutbikes. They're everywhere. And so are their riders. Some of these riders seem to be sporting sideburns and a few of them are winning things. Big things. Now Ned wants to know how on earth it came to this. And what, exactly, is "this." Here, Ned Boulting asks how Britain became so obsessed with cycling. Ned s search puts him in contact with some of the wonderful and wonderfully idiosyncratic people who...