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Title: Reg Harris - The Rise And Fall Of Britain's Greatest Cyclist
Author: Robert Dineen
Publisher: Ebury Press
Year: 2012
Pages: 352
Order:Ebury Publishing
What it is: A biography of Britain's five-time track sprint World Champion, Reg Harris, by Daily Telegraph journalist Robert Dineen
Strengths: Harris's is a story that has too long been out of print.
Weaknesses: The whole thing seems somewhat opportunistic and poorly thought out.
Track sprinting - match sprinting - is possibly the purest cycling discipline there is.
It is the true test of head and legs and, down through the years, very little in it has changed.
Why is ulysses a banned book
Read reports from early road races and you sometimes wonder if you're really reading about the same sport you watch today, so much has changed. But pick up a story about a match sprint from way, way back and it reads pretty much the same as the story of a match sprint today.
Pick a sprinter from the past and it's much easier to see in him a star of