The article reflects on the author's personal experiences with bike racing, emphasizing the essential struggle and endurance required in the sport. It highlights Tim Krabbé's novel "The Rider," which accurately depicts the emotional and physical toll of a 137-kilometer race. Through vivid descriptions and a first-person narrative, Krabbé's writing exposes the often romanticized yet stark truth about racingâendurance through pain and the mental games competitors play. This exploration underscores the intrinsic values of courage and misery that define competitive cycling.
Whether you're at a professional level or just racing for fun, bike racing is fundamentally about enduring pain and outsmarting your competitors in the process.
Tim Krabbéâs prose in The Rider captures the brutal realities of a bike race, providing both beauty in the suffering and a raw honesty about the sport.
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