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Are there any two or three indispensible histories of European road
cycling?

TIA
Steve

PS--Nice photo. I need a room like that, but they'd find me anyway.

Steve

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:05:35 -0400, Steven Bornfeld wrote:
Are there any two or three indispensible histories of European road
cycling?

What, in book form? "Dino Buzzati al Giro d'Italia" might be one of
them. And "Wij waren allemaal goden - de Tour van 1948" by one B. Maso.


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Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:05:35 -0400, Steven Bornfeld wrote:

Are there any two or three indispensible histories of European road
cycling?


What, in book form? "Dino Buzzati al Giro d'Italia" might be one of
them. And "Wij waren allemaal goden - de Tour van 1948" by one B. Maso.

Book form, yes. English form even better.

Steve

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:05:35 -0400, Steven Bornfeld wrote:

Are there any two or three indispensible histories of European road
cycling?


What, in book form? "Dino Buzzati al Giro d'Italia" might be one of
them. And "Wij waren allemaal goden - de Tour van 1948" by one B. Maso.



Checking Amazon, I saw no direct reference to Benjo's cycling book, but
plenty of references to him in sociology texts. There was this:
http://tinyurl.com/4xmtr

referencing our esteemed "Dutch sociologist and historian of cycling".

There is also this:

http://tinyurl.com/7x5kz

which contains this tidbit:

Excerpt from page 783 "... use has greatly diminished . Among keyed
instruments is the benjo (CD track 28), a zither about 90 to 98
centimeters ..."

I am absolutely awe-struck!!

Steve

"Steven Bornfeld" wrote in message
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Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:05:35 -0400, Steven Bornfeld wrote:

Are there any two or three indispensible histories of European road
cycling?


What, in book form? "Dino Buzzati al Giro d'Italia" might be one of
them. And "Wij waren allemaal goden - de Tour van 1948" by one B. Maso.

Book form, yes. English form even better.

Do you mean a general history of cycling? I know four of them, but all in
French. Two books of Pierre Chany (La fabuleuse histoire du cyclisme & La
fabuleuse histoire des grandes classiques et des championnats du monde), one
of Jean Durry (La vérédique histoire des géants de la route) and one of
Jacques Augendre, Roger Bastide and others (Histoire du cyclisme). I also
wrote a general history of cycling. It is in Dutch but on this very moment
it is being translated in English. But I don't pretend it's indispensible
:-)

Benjo Maso

benjo maso wrote:
"Steven Bornfeld" wrote in message
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Ewoud Dronkert wrote:

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:05:35 -0400, Steven Bornfeld wrote:


Are there any two or three indispensible histories of European road
cycling?


What, in book form? "Dino Buzzati al Giro d'Italia" might be one of
them. And "Wij waren allemaal goden - de Tour van 1948" by one B. Maso.

Book form, yes. English form even better.


Do you mean a general history of cycling? I know four of them, but all in
French. Two books of Pierre Chany (La fabuleuse histoire du cyclisme & La
fabuleuse histoire des grandes classiques et des championnats du monde), one
of Jean Durry (La vérédique histoire des géants de la route) and one of
Jacques Augendre, Roger Bastide and others (Histoire du cyclisme). I also
wrote a general history of cycling. It is in Dutch but on this very moment
it is being translated in English. But I don't pretend it's indispensible
:-)

Benjo Maso


I hope you'll let us know when the English translation is available.
I remeber during my last visit to France (sadly it was way back in
1987) picking up a copy of one installment of a cycling history with a
name very much like "La fabuleuse histoire du cyclisme". My French is
basic at best, but it looked terrific. The series was coming out as a
periodical magazine, and I would have subscribed if I had known how to
at the time.

Steve

"benjo maso" wrote in message
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I also wrote a general history of cycling. It is in Dutch but on this very
moment it is being translated in English. But I don't pretend it's
indispensible

That's OK Benjo, WE'LL pretend that it's indispensible as soon as we can buy
it.

benjo maso wrote:
I also wrote a general history of cycling. It is in Dutch but on this
very moment it is being translated in English. But I don't pretend it's
indispensible

Tom Kunich wrote:
That's OK Benjo, WE'LL pretend that it's indispensible as soon as we can
buy it.

benjo maso wrote:
One of my main arguments is that the history of cycling is for a large part
based on illusions, so that's would be in the spirit of my book ...

You must be cycling's answer to Albert Camus. Come to think of it, I
sometimes feel like Sisyphus when I having a bad day at a hilly race.