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Tour De France For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies)) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Phil Liggett, James Raia, Sammarye Lewis
Creator: Lance Armstrong
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 419512
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 279
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0764584499
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.620944
EAN: 9780764584497
ASIN: 0764584499
Publication Date: May 27, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New Book. May have a Remainder Mark
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Product Description
A plain-English guide to the world's most famous-and grueling-bicycle race Featuring eight-pages of full-color photos from recent Tour de France races, this easy-to-follow, entertaining guide demystifies the history, strategy, rules, techniques, equipment, and competitors in what is arguably the most grueling and intriguing multiday, multistage sporting event in the world. Cowritten by the most popular English-speaking cycling commentator on the planet, this book is great reading for both experienced and the new bicycle racing fans alike.
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A plain-English guide to the world's most famous-and grueling-bicycle race Featuring eight-pages of full-color photos from recent Tour de France races, this easy-to-follow, entertaining guide demystifies the history, strategy, rules, techniques, equipment, and competitors in what is arguably the most grueling and intriguing multiday, multistage sporting event in the world. Cowritten by the most popular English-speaking cycling commentator on the planet, this book is great reading for both experienced and the new bicycle racing fans alike.
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 Tour De France for Dummies February 5, 2008
This book covers the fundamentals of the tour. I recommend it for anyone who is interested in watching the tour, on TV and especially if you plan to travel to France to watch it live.
 a good start, maybe. June 10, 2006
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
this book is amaterurishly written and edited and poorly final-proofed. organization is helter skelter. biggest complaint is way too much fluff. in fact, the book is mostly fluff. very little on scoring and strategy other than the obvious qualitative stuff. hotels. how the riders get on the bus. did you really want to know the secrets of the podium girls? well there aren't any. but the writers seem to think you want to know that. maybe you do.
a MUCH better source for everything technical about the Tour is in Wikipedia. save your money and shelf space and look it up.
 If Tour de France is your passion, this is your book October 11, 2005
At this writing, October 2005, the book is still hot off the press and very current. If you're interested in the Tour, this book is for you because it covers and explains pretty much every aspect of the event.
Tour De France for Dummies August 3, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Even as a avid follower of the Tour and Bicycle racing for that matter, this book gave me insights about the Tour and Bicycle racing, that I guess would make it really a book not just for Dummies!
It was just plain fun to read this well research guide to a different world!
Excellent for the novice Tour watcher as well as the expert August 2, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was well organized and very readable. I read it preceeding the Tour and even tho I've watched the Tour for several years now I still learned some things I didn't know before. I probably will read it again next year as it's one of those books where you seem to be able to pick up something each time you read it. This book has enhanced my enjoyment of the Tour.
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