Adventures Riding the Iron Curtain
by Tim Moore
appears in Hobbies, Travel, and Nonfiction.
Not content with tackling the Italian Alps or the route of the Tour de France, Tim Moore sets out to scale a new peak of rash overambition: 6,000 mile route of the old Iron Curtain on a tinywheeled, twogeared East German shopping bike.Asking for trouble and getting it, Moore sets off from the northernmost NorwegianRussian border at the Arctic w...
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