The Secret Race

The narrator's own story is not the most interesting but he's perfectly placed and well able to tell the story of cycling's early 2000s doping with colour. The best cycling book so far from the dozen I've read.

I always loved Tyler Hamilton's competitive spirit and how he fought through pain to race. I was saddened in his “downfall” but I'm glad to see he is recovering well. If you ate a bike race watcher getting hit upside the head with this book will change your perspective immediately. If you are a bike racer, like myself, you have compassion followed by disgust on what these riders have done. I don't stand in judgement but it calls into question everything and my cycling heroes are now shoved off the pedestal I put them on. I hope the new generation is not led down the doping paths but I will forever be skeptical now.

Brutally honest book about how not only cycling world works. People with power and money can simply ignore any rules.

The book is written in a superbly pleasant manner. It is split into perfectly sized chapters. The whole editing is just flawless. I read the book in 2 days, could barely stop it reading, that's how thrilling it is.

I would recommend the book to everyone, it's nice and pleasant reading describing large scale cheating behaviour that's happening in the whole society on all levels.