Gironimo! Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy

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. Of the eighty-one riders who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. To truly capture the essence of what these riders endured, Tim Moore acquires a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike, some maps, and an alarming period outfit. As Moore rides up and over the Alps and then down to the Adriatic (with only wine corks for brakes), Gironimo! is an adventure that is by turns bold, beautiful, and madly inspiring.