Reg harris autobiography books

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. 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