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This books aims to help bring the reader a renewed understanding of the history of the sport with its deep inspiration, emulative and heroic links between amateurs, professional riders, and fans. By making you think about yourself, ‘Chasing the Pros’ tries to help us become better riders, and enjoy our bikes and experiences on them that little bit more. 

Chasing the Pros is about what keeps us all going through the suffering, pushing our minds and bodies to the limits to cross the finish line of an amateur event, when unlike professional racers we don’t get paid full-time to ride, it’s a pastime pleasure and there’s an almost zero chance of winning. Not just once, amateurs all over the world often repeatedly take on these events, spending months training and thousands on kit. Knowing the difficulty why do amateur riders enter, what keeps them pedalling when the going gets really tough and what do they take from crossing the finish line?  Nick shares some of his own experiences, explores others, and talks to former pro’s, amateur racers and sportive/challenge cyclists, to answer: “What keeps you – keeps us all – going?”.