Hunger: Sean Kelly's Autobiography Out 31st May

furiousox

Kelly's autobiography 'Hunger' released on 31/5.
This should be a hell of a read!
I didn't know anything about this, has he mentioned it on Eurosport?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunger-Sean-Kelly-Autobiography/dp/0956781438/ref=sr_1_74?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366109946&sr=1-74&keywords=cycling

bren_mc

furiousox wrote: »

I didn't know anything about this, has he mentioned it on Eurosport?

no, not yet. he's playing the waiting game

bazermc

furiousox wrote: »

I didn't know anything about this, has he mentioned it on Eurosport?

Possibly but we didnt understand him

Laundry_Hamper

Oh man, that should make for a good read...

Lumen

bren_mc wrote: »

no, not yet. he's playing the waiting game

...and making the calculation!

MichealD

Look forward to it. Any idea who ghosted it?

Dura Ace

Lionel Birnie as far as I know.

MPFG

Oh...I am off to the shops now to put my order in .....

The Big Lebowsky

The legendary Sean Kelly was a man of few words during his racing career, he always let his legs do the talking. I look forward to reading his auto-biography, but I very much doubt Kelly will divulge much about the dark side of the pro peleton during the his tenure at the top of the sport.

ibebanging

I wonder will be doing any signings when the book is launched.

bazermc

The cover photo on the book is fantastic - post Paris Roubaix I am guessing

RobFowl

Pre ordered this a few months ago
Looking forward to reading it
Hope he offers some insight on the more murky goings on.....

Junior

I can't see Birnie not asking some hard questions of him.

death1234567

I can't see KElly spilling any information about the "real" goings-on in the peleton. He's too involved in cycling to burn his bridges.

fat bloke

I hear it reveals his recent fake moustache and glasses forays into A4 racing.

Feckin' cleaning up he is!

Luis21

I imagine he will gloss over his positive drug tests and lifetime Olympic ban (cheers Pat McQuaid)

2011abc

Clearly NOTHING is sacred round here !Its SEAN KELLY for flips sake man ,wash your mouth out with soap and water !

Luis21

2011abc wrote: »

Clearly NOTHING is sacred round here !Its SEAN KELLY for flips sake man ,wash your mouth out with soap and water !

??? Was I telling lies ? Eh no. Are you that bloke from the Late Late Show who reckoned Roche was clean because "he is a great fella"

Lumen

Sean Kelly bridge?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0322/377906-dublin-bridge-name/

edit: oh. "Cllr Lacey...said the committee wanted to name it after someone who had been deceased for at least 20 years."

mr lee

he's an ignorant man,i wouldn't give him a penny of my money

bsb1971

Have this on pre order with Amazon for a few months now! Had the pleasure of meeting King Kelly in Tralee a few weeks back, he did a question and answer session with Micheal O'Muireartaigh (know i've misspelt it!). Got his biography with David Walsh and his Man for All Seasons book signed. Felt like a big kid meeting him. Have to say Kelly was good craic, great comment when was asked early in his Eurosport commentary career to act more excited.......his response - hard to after you've won the race 2 or 3 times!

Lumen

mr lee wrote: »

he's an ignorant man

Ignorant of what?

Laundry_Hamper

mr lee wrote: »

he's an ignorant man,i wouldn't give him a penny of my money

Ah now.

Fender76

Kelly doesn't seem like a man of many words but he does come out with the odd gem.. like when, back in the early 80's, Linda leant against his precious Citroen and left a smudge on the bonnet.. Kelly went over and polished where she had been.. Apparently Linda isays 'Oh Sean, I don't know which comes first, me or the car..!' To which Kelly answers 'Wrong, the bike comes first...'... Legend...

mr lee

ok,maybe ignorant wasnt the best way to put it so i'll put it another way,he was verbally abusive to me when i was doin my job,nobody else was,i wouldn't mind except i looked up to that cnut when i was a kid and he was a top pro(drug fuelled ),anyone that shouts abuse at someone else when they are just doing there job is a registered wanker

Chartsengrafs

Well that's all the evidence I need.

Lumen

Basster wrote: »

Well that's all the evidence I need.

Too right bro'.

When I get home I'm going to smash my right hand TV speaker so I only ever get to hear David Harmon.

mr lee

evidence for what?

Laundry_Hamper

mr lee wrote: »

evidence for what?

Séan's "ignorance"

fat bloke

mr lee wrote: »

ok,maybe ignorant wasnt the best way to put it so i'll put it another way,he was verbally abusive to me when i was doin my job,nobody else was,i wouldn't mind except i looked up to that cnut when i was a kid and he was a top pro(drug fuelled ),anyone that shouts abuse at someone else when they are just doing there job is a registered wanker

Ah here. By those standards we're all registered. You can catch anyone in a bad mood. I don't know that a person could really generate the kind of good will that halo's Sean Kelly wherever he goes if he wasn't a decent guy.

mr lee

maybe so fat bloke,could you like or respect someone that would treat you like that

2011abc

mr lee wrote: »

ok,maybe ignorant wasnt the best way to put it so i'll put it another way,he was verbally abusive to me when i was doin my job,

Youre not a traffic warden,speed cop etc are ya?Post was very vague -maybe best left so -but am certainly curious.

fat bloke

mr lee wrote: »

maybe so fat bloke,could you like or respect someone that would treat you like that

Short answer, no.

Fender76

Did he touch your bum on a podium..?

furiousox

Were you one of his domestiques....?

dermur

Must have been a majorly difficult job...

Sammy7p

So has the book been released? Amazon is saying

Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.

bren_mc

Sammy7p wrote: »

So has the book been released? Amazon is saying

Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.

he mentioned on Eurosport a while back that he wasn't sure of the release date but that it would most likely be in July, to coincide with the tour

Wishbone Ash

bazermc wrote: »

The cover photo on the book is fantastic - post Paris Roubaix I am guessing

Surinam

I'll never understand how Irish people so easily forgive cheaters/corrupt people. I wonder if he'll even mention the positive drug tests: as said above, he's still embedded in professional cycling so probably wouldn't want to ruffle any feathers.

funnights74

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I doubt it's Paris-Roubaix, the background doesn't look very PR like, probably a montain stage from one of the grand tours, he did win the green jersey a few times on the TdF.

Wishbone Ash

funnights74 wrote: »

I doubt it's Paris-Roubaix, the background doesn't look very PR like, probably a montain stage from one of the grand tours, he did win the green jersey a few times on the TdF.

I think bazermc may have been referring to the picture in the OP's link which features Kelly with a muddy face and I think was used as a publicity shot for the book.

RyanAndrew

June 17 | Hardback | ebook | 320 pages | £18.99
Foreword by Bradley Wiggins, 2012 Tour de France winner
Epilogue by Robert Millar, 1984 Tour king of the mountains
Add to basket
Free delivery to UK addresses. Please note, this book will be published around June 17.


http://pelotonpublishing.co.uk/sean-kelly-autobiography/

death1234567

Anyone reading it?

h2005

If it doesnt cover his cheating its not worth reading for me. If he`s going to gloss over that its hard for me to believe anything else hes got to say.

happytramp

funnights74 wrote: »

I doubt it's Paris-Roubaix, the background doesn't look very PR like, probably a montain stage from one of the grand tours, he did win the green jersey a few times on the TdF.

My guess is that it's on his way to winning stage 12 at the 1982 Tour de France. He was riding for Sem-France Loire and that is a green version of their jersey. No real reason to think that it's stage 12 other than that's the mountain stage he won so it makes sense.

Skip to 34min to see the final few k of the stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSz75KxE5nY

pierredieterle

Sean Kelly fans, I invite you to visit the website about my uncle Jean de Gribaldy, with lots of rare Sean pics...

www.jeandegribaldy.com

t'bear

happytramp wrote: »

My guess is that it's on his way to winning stage 12 at the 1982 Tour de France. He was riding for Sem-France Loire and that is a green version of their jersey. No real reason to think that it's stage 12 other than that's the mountain stage he won so it makes sense.

Skip to 34min to see the final few k of the stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSz75KxE5nY

The 'feet' and 'miles' are very off putting - what is 5246feet in meters? :-)

happytramp

pierredieterle wrote: »

Sean Kelly fans, I invite you to visit the website about my uncle Jean de Gribaldy, with lots of rare Sean pics...

www.jeandegribaldy.com

It's a great site alright. Thanks.

theholyghost

What has become of this book? No reviews online or on Amazon, no sign of it in my local bookshop. Maybe Sean isn't free to push it until after the Tour.

Has anyone picked up a copy?

RobFowl

theholyghost wrote: »

What has become of this book? No reviews online or on Amazon, no sign of it in my local bookshop. Maybe Sean isn't free to push it until after the Tour.

Has anyone picked up a copy?

It's in the book shops and I'm half way through it.
Well written and offering a lot of insights.