The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail Audiobook (Free)

Random Home presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook release of The Cyclist Who WENT in the Cold, written and browse by Tim Moore.

‘Bill Bryson on two wheels’ Independent

Scaling a new top of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km course of the old Iron Drape on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German purchasing bike.

Asking for trouble and setting it up, he cause from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border in the Arctic winter’s brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 about The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Journeys Along the Iron Drape Path through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland.

Sleeping in bank vaults, imperial palaces and unreconstructed Soviet youth hostels, battling vodka-breathed Russian hostility, Romanian landslides and a diet of dumplings, Moore and his ‘so-small bike’ are sustained with the kindness of reindeer farmers and Serbian rock and roll gods, plus a shameful addiction to Magic Guy energy drink.

Haunted throughout from the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects over the curdling from the Communist dream, and the memories of the Cold Battle generation reared on worries of apocalypse – at a time of ratcheting East-West tension.

After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt in the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but primarily older.