Gironimo!

Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back.

Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike with wine corks for brakes, some maps and an alarming period outfit topped off with a pair of blue-lensed welding goggles.

A considerable achievement

Painfully funny

A wonderfully written, extremely funny book... You read Gironimo! with a permanent smile on your face

A superbly funny read

Readers of Moore’s French Revolutions will not be disappointed by this hilariously painful, and poignant, adventure

Gironimo! is partly a story of adversity, despair, and tenacity – and partly a funny, and often sweary, travelogue. I was hooked from the start

Absurd, inspirational and laugh-out-loud funny, Gironimo! Is a charming tribute to the dogged resilience of the amateur spirit and a golden age of road cycling

Part travelogue, part sports record and part history and all written with his inimitable humour

Gironimo is the perfect successor to French Revolutions , and provides more of everything that made the latter so popular

The author’s adventures are often highly entertaining, though, as “road-trip” literature, it is unusual in that it mostly makes the reader glad not to be on the road!

Having ridden the route of the Tour de France in French Revolutions , led a donkey on a 500-mile pilgrimage in Spanish Steps and driven round the worst places in Britain in an Austin Maestro for You Are Awful (But I Like You) , Tim Moore can loook back on a towering career in misadventure.

Gironimo! , his latest and most imposing pedal-powered endeavour, is a story of predictable over-ambition trumped by frankly staggering over-achievement. Moore lives in London with his wife and three children, and still wears those welding goggles at Christmas.