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Sticky Bottle
- The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby
- Narrated by: Carlton Kirby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
Legendary commentator Carlton Kirby’s professional cycling race year takes us from the magnificent Grand Tours and iconic Spring Classics to the sport’s more bizarre corners with plenty of his inimitable and irreverent diversions en route.
A true cycling nut would be hard pushed to even name all 36 races on the UCI World Tour, but there is much more to professional racing than national tours and monuments. It’s a year-long global schedule venturing as far afield as Burkina Faso and Gabon. So why not take some of these roads less travelled in the company of Carlton Kirby, a real commentary nomad, cycling expert and hilarious raconteur.
Carlton’s year follows the cycling seasons through the Spring Classics to the Grand Tours and on to the World Championships and Six Day track racing. In between he’s visiting the lesser known, bizarre and challenging races such as Tour de Langkawi, Flanders‘ Scheldeprijs, The Red Hook Crit in New Jersey and UK’s National Hill Climb Championships.
Along the way we hear great cycling stories from the past as well as how he appeared in a blockbuster action movie, bought an octopus in an auction, got lost in a storm on a sacred Catalonian mountain and faced near death in a biscuit factory. And that’s just some of the anecdotes that don’t involve Sean Kelly.
Critic reviews
‘Entertaining, quirky and an enjoyable read from a clever writer’ – Phil Liggett MBE
'A genuine one-off with a ready wit and a killer anecdote to hand at all times' – Rouleur
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- dragon
- 23-06-23
Sticky bottle a blast
The book ended to soon those familiar tones and voice impressions to impress. An amazing tale of a year in cycling who better to write and read it. Definitely one to listen over again and again class.
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- O'
- 18-10-23
Fantastic listen from a master!
I loved everything about this, great stories and of course fantastic narration, not to mention great impersonations of a famous cyclist with peach melba tips.
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- k pius
- 30-05-23
Classic Carlton (obvs)
Anecdotes follow quicker than Almeida will stick to a wheel.
I will never forgive Carlton's "jiro" for "Giro", other than that, this book is almost as joyful as Iljo's win itself.
More Big C, more..!!
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- Mrs S J Edwards
- 29-01-24
The Murray Walker of cycling (but more accurate)!
Carlton has produced yet another entertaining masterpiece - lived every second of it and felt like I was there watching the racing as I sat on Zwift.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-04-24
A must
CK doing what he does Best “telling stories”
A must read/Listen. Well Done CK
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- J. Betteley
- 22-06-23
Somehow equally funny, entertaining & informative
Bike race reviews - check!
Personal anecdotes - check!
Tourism guide - check!
Sean Kelly impressions - check!
Thoroughly entertaining. If you like bike racing, you'll like this. I loved it.
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- Dr Michael S Young
- 27-03-24
If you like cycling you’ll LOVE this!
Just fabulous… at one level it ‘invites’ you to be an informed spectator… but at another it’s an amazing insight into the brilliant stories of a cycling ‘raconteur’
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- Andy
- 25-07-23
must have for cycling fans
if you've watched cycling, you'll have heard Carlton Kirbys voice. open, honest, funny and eye opening
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- simon
- 19-08-23
Another CK classic!
If you enjoy cycling and CK commentary, you’ll love this book. Funny, entertaining and informative.
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- Oliver Parish
- 28-01-24
Brilliant!
He may tell some tall tales….. but he tells them brilliantly!
If you love cycling (& even if you don’t), the stories and the narrator are pure gold.
Enjoy!
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