The Break: Life as a Cycling Maverick

‘Getting in a break was my one chance of winning. The hard part was working out, again andagain, how to make that chance count.’ - Steve Cummings

Sharp, resourceful and a permanent outsider; for nearly 20 years Steve Cummingsdeterminedly blazed his own winning trail in international cycling. A maverick who defied thedominant teams, to record a sequence of gloriously improbable victories, he has lived andraced with legends of the sport - Cavendish, Wiggins, Froome, Thomas and others - aboutwhom he has strong views and untold stories.

This autobiography of one of Britain’s most successful international riders of the modern eratakes the reader from Steve’s earliest days as a junior, pounding across the flatlands of theWirral, through his love-hate relationships with the British Cycling track cycling squad, to hisseries of top-level breakaway victories in the Tour de France, Tour of Britain and Vuelta aEspaa and - rather than standout physical talent - how developing his own strategies andtraining techniques enabled him to succeed against the odds.

The Break will be the first full-length account of the life and times of, in the words of ProCyclingmagazine, a ‘universally popular and respected rider in the cycling world’.