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Chapter 6 in Ned Boulting's On The Road Bike.

If you can read the last couple of paragraphs without getting dust in your eye you are a better (or perhaps worse) man than me.


 
Posted : 31/07/2013 6:50 am
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TTIUWQuotes.


 
Posted : 31/07/2013 7:03 am
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Stoner +1


 
Posted : 31/07/2013 7:42 am
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I can't quote it. It is the story of Maurice Burton and takes in 6 day track racing, racism, bike shops and Wiggo.

Read it.


 
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Well I'm intrigued now; I always thought the last chapter of The Escape Artist by Matt Seaton was the most "dusty" - won't spoil it by telling you what happens but it's real and it's tragic.

[i]Nips off to Amazon to read about Ned's book.... [/i]


 
Posted : 31/07/2013 7:54 am
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Maurice Burton = Hero. Check out is son, he is good and going to be really good.


 
Posted : 31/07/2013 7:56 am
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This is "dusty" in a good way.


 
Posted : 31/07/2013 8:27 am
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what's the rest of the book like?
I don't normally pick books on the basis that they might make me cry 🙂


 
Posted : 31/07/2013 8:43 am
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I am part way through that book - a good read indeed


 
Posted : 31/07/2013 8:45 am
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Burton is a remarkable bloke. His comments about Wiggo's dad in the Sky documentary of last year were gently understated but very eloquent


 
Posted : 31/07/2013 10:32 am

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