The Accidental Tour-ist

(Final) Dispatches from the Road –THE FOLLOW UP TO HOW I WON THE YELLOW JUMPER

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The Accidental Tour-ist

By: Ned Boulting

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Bloomsbury presents The Accidental Tour-ist: (Final) Dispatches from the Road, written and read by Ned Boulting

FROM THE WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR: 1923
Shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Audiobook of the Year, 2026

'A fascinating and inspiring book … An excellent read' – Phill Liggett MBE

In the follow up to the bestselling How I Won the Yellow Jumper and the award-winning 1923, this is a lap of honour for everything that Ned has been lucky enough to have experienced during his commentating career.

Join Ned once more as he brings his cycling stories up to the present day – full of recollections of chaotic, memorable and sometimes surreal encounters with all the key riders. While the Tour de France takes centre stage, his horizons expand far beyond its confines to take in races across Europe as well as to fascinating locations in the Middle East, China and Malaysia.

There are behind-the-scenes chapters on life at the Giro d'Italia; the growth of women's racing; forays into podcasting; replacing the great Phil Liggett as ITV's main commentator; the Flemish classics; and the life and times of Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish.

Ride along as Ned travels around the UK with a stage show about the Tour de France, and on the many days that he and David Millar have spent quixotically riding folding bikes up and down enormous mountains.©2025 Ned Boulting (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Critic reviews

A very unique, insightful, mostly amusing and often hilarious perspective from a point of view that very few see and even fewer have the capacity to divulge to us all

A fascinating and inspiring book ... An excellent read

The insight of a reporter and the passion of a fan, but still clear-eyed enough to take joy in pro-racing’s absurdities and contradictions

A joyride of a journey

Elegiac

A mature, reflective affair... [Ned] is one of the most prolific writers of books in the cycling business

An elegy for not just the career [Ned's] fashioned from cycling, but also the way we view sport, its personalities and their often short-lived careers.

Memorable

Exciting

It invites us to gear up for the ride of our lives

Mature, reflective… impeccably timed

Most relevant

A wonderful collection of memories and stories of following some of the biggest bike races in the world…and some of the smallest ones too!
I’ve always enjoyed Ned Boulting’s work and this is no different. It’s the first time I’ve listened to an audiobook of his work and I’m now questioning why, as he delivers the book with the same pitch and cadence that I’ve become used to listening to him commentate on some of the biggest bike races in the world…and some of the smallest ones too!

If anything, this book confirms just how sad it is that we will lose Ned’s contribution to the Tour with the end of free to air coverage.