{"id":2090,"date":"2016-09-23T08:59:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T08:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2016-09-23T08:59:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T08:59:20","slug":"a-conversation-with-tim-moore-149-oct-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-tim-moore-149-oct-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with Tim Moore (149, Oct 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Moore<\/a>\u00a0is a writer who is partial to the odd adventure or two. Over the course of his book career to date, he\u2019s gone in search of those Eurovision contestants who\u2019ve came bottom of the class (as detailed in his book\u00a0Nul Points<\/a>), journeyed across Spain with a donkey for company (Spanish Steps<\/a>), cycled the route of the Tour de France on a diet of ProPlus and rose wine (French Revolutions<\/a>) and got back on a bike for the 3,200km route of the notorious 1914 Giro d\u2019Italia, this time on a century old wooden-wheeled bike (Gironimo!<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The reason for his visit to\u00a0Banter<\/a>\u00a0next month is that he\u2019s got a bike out of the shed again and he\u2019s written another book about it. The bike this time was the MIFA 900, a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike \u2013 and Tim\u2019s spin took him along the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain.<\/p>\n

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The Cyclist Who Went Out In the Cold<\/a>\u00a0is an adventure yarn about battling Russian hostility, Romanian landslides and a diet of dumplings; sleeping in bank vaults, imperial palaces and unreconstructed Soviet youth hostels and the kindness of reindeer farmers and Serbian rock gods.<\/p>\n

Tim will join us at Banter to talk about the book which came out of this three months and 29 countries jaunt and how he became older and wiser \u2013 mostly older \u2013 from his time spent pedalling along the old Cold War divide.<\/p>\n

The details:<\/strong>\u00a0A Banter Conversation with Tim Moore takes place at\u00a0Wigwam<\/a>\u00a0(Middle Abbey St., Dubin 1) on Monday October 17. Doors open at 6pm and the event starts at 6.30pm. Tickets are now available\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n