num_pages: 179
description: Tomorrow we ride. that's what my brother Louison and I used to say as we arranged to every day while we were racing cyclists and then just on Sundays when we weren't competing any more. We kept on riding until the end of his life because even then - especially then perhaps - we always understood each other best on bikes. We had always needed a bike beneath us. In the words of the song we took the high road and the low in cycling the glory days always have less glorious ones on their tail. Thanks to Louison I had the good fortune to ride with him through the golden years the 50 the years of post-war reconstruction of Coppi and Bartali of Kubler and Koblet of Gaul and Van Steenbergen Anquetil and Darrigade. These are names that speak of the aristocracy of cycling and the fierceness of the competition. Every day Louison and I took pleasure in cycling together whether on our intimate journeys through Brittany or the Alps or in the frenzy of the Tour de France or Giro d'Italia. Jean Bobet. Jean Bobet's book is not so much a biography of his superstar brother Louison nor his own autobiography but rather an account of the intermingling of their two lives. And what lives - Louison triple Tour de France winner and World Champion and Jean (no mean rider himself) who gave up an academic career to ride in the service of his brother in pursuit of sporting glory. Set in the period after the war this story brings alive the romance of the great races and the star riders of the day whose exploits lifted the public spirit after years of conflict and economic hardship.
language: English
title: Tomorrow, We Ride
publisher: Cordee