Random Home presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook model of The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cool, written and go through by Tim Moore.

‘Bill Bryson in two tires’ Independent

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German purchasing bike.

Asking for trouble and getting it, he cause from your northernmost Norwegian-Russian border in the Arctic winter’s brutal elevation, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 about The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Journeys Along the Iron Curtain Trail through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland.

Sleeping in loan company vaults, imperial palaces and unreconstructed Soviet youth hostels, battling vodka-breathed Russian hostility, Romanian landslides and a diet plan of dumplings, Moore and his ‘so-small bike’ are suffered by the kindness of reindeer farmers and Serbian rock gods, plus a shameful dependence on Magic Guy energy drink.

Haunted throughout by the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor cable, Moore reflects around the curdling from the Communist desire, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on worries of apocalypse – at the same time of ratcheting East-West tension.

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 primarily older.