Pain is no signal to stop 
Tim Krabbé – The Rider

The Cycling Addiction

A follow-up to Phil Cavell’s cycling best-selling book and audiobook, The Midlife Cyclist

The Cycling Addiction explores the fundamental antecedent of why? For why do we seek to suffer?

The why takes the reader to a largely unmapped space that intersects sports-psychology, neurobiology, philosophy, and most importantly, shared anecdote and reflection.
The book tells the enthralling and often unexpected stories of selected cyclists, living and dead, obscure and famous, triumphant and tragic, in an attempt to grasp how finding the bicycle changed the course of their lives. Some rode to escape or redeem, improve, or re-invent. For many the act of cycling simply alchemised loneliness into a state of being peacefully alone.
Our motivation to suffer as we relentlessly test and expand our physiological boundaries, is reviewed by emerging neurobiology and sports psychology. And when the science stumbles, as it inevitably must, we continue to follow the breadcrumb trail to the doors of philosophers, who in turn may even call question our very notion of free-will, that inevitably underpins any proposition of why we do anything at all.