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I'm Tim Moore. I'm a travel writer with a Ponshaw for doing enormous bike journeys, three

of which have retraced the routes of the three grand tour. So I did French

revolutions 20 years ago. Then I did a book about the Giro called Geronimo, retracing the

1914 Giro d'Italia on a 1914 bike with wooden wheels. I've just recently, last year,

come out a couple of weeks ago, done a book about the welter called Welter Skelter, retracing

the route of the 1941 welter, which is one by a rather fascinating character called

Julien Berendero. Well, let's start with that. When you mention that you've done the

other two grand tours, that was the obvious one missing. But what led you to the story

of Berendero in particular? I mean, obviously it seemed like an obvious

way. There was a trilogy. So you've done the Giro and the Tour. So what about the welter

and people were asking me about that over a period of some years, I have to say, but it

was only in lockdown gets going and I have too much time, my hands, and I do all the stupid

things that people tend to do in lockdown life, sitting in the garden, drinking as a

designer and doing various advanced bits of DIY that I wasn't really competent to do.

And then I suppose it's because I've written quite a lot of books about cycling. I tend

to get given quite a lot of books about cycling, but because I also feel like I've been

a bit of a fraud, because I'm not really an actual cyclist and I don't really know what

I'm doing. So I was, which is my real book about actual cycling. I feel a bit guilty,

but I'll start going through this part. And there was a history of the welter, like you

know, it's called Viva La Vuelter, every understood and account of every welter there's

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