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No bicycle repair was ever made easier by turning your bike upside down. White shorts are for other people. A helmet perched on the back of your head is perfect if you ride your bike backwards - These and a host of other handy pointers jostle for attention within this A - Z guide to being a cyclist. It's an essential manual and source of wisdom for those who would be kings of the road. Many pitfalls await the unwary middle-aged-man-in-Lycra, but fear not, for the Guide is here to steer you through choppy waters. No more passing out halfway up a hill. No more ridicule in the work place. No more hurty knee. And no more sock crimes. Pearls of wisdom are scattered throughout this book like rose petals before a princess on her wedding day. For instance, who could deny that life is too short to drink bad coffee? That a noisy bike is marginally more annoying than a whiney toddler? Or that style should ever be sacrificed for speed? Written by experts who know everything there is to know about cycling, yet never forget that there is nothing funnier than a rabbit playing a trumpet, How to be a Cyclist is mandatory reading for all bike riders.

In what could be the most middle-class uprising in history, a million middle-aged-men-in-Lycra are taking to the streets of Britain. How to be a Cyclist has been created with love, affection and understanding for the M.A.M.I.L. We get how it feels to believe you look like Eddy Merckx only to catch a glimpse of your reflection in a shop window and sadly realise it's more Eddie the Eagle. But we also understand what it feels like to sit in the pub waiting for your Sunday roast surrounded by bleary-eyed Observer readers who've just got up, when you've already ridden over the Horseshoe Pass that morning. With wise words and inspirational original photography, Phil Ashley and John Deering will guide you through a world where snobbery and etiquette rule. How to be a Cyclist is a ruthless authoritative voice that you can rely upon to see you right. Never again will you be humiliated because you have your helmet on back to front ...