The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition Tim Moore tackles the 9000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled two-geared East German shopping bike. He sets off from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winter’s brutal height bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the desolation of snowbound Finland. Sleeping in bank vaults imperial palaces and unreconstructed Soviet youth hostels Moore and his 'so-small bicycle' are sustained by the kindness of reindeer farmers and Serbian rock gods plus a shameful addiction to Magic Man energy drink. After three months 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the centigrade scale man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria older and wiser but mainly older.