I don’t think anyone, including Tadej Pogačar and Primož Roglič, knows how Primož lost the Tour de France in a time trial he started with a 57-second lead. It’s not like we watched a TT machine trying to nail a climber who can’t spin a high gear for 60 minutes … Read more
Bike crashes hurt. To paraphrase Tyler Durden, on a long enough timeline, the crash-free rate drops to zero. It’s the law.
In Soviet Union, unwritten rules of the peloton was law. As the unwritten rules go, they were not codified. You wouldn’t go to a library, pick up a Codex Cyclicus volume and find out what’s legal and what’s not. You learned the rules over thousands of kilometers listening to your … Read more
The Rise of the Machines Nineteen-eighty Moscow Olympic Games left a footprint in my memory. This is when aero helmets and skinsuits hit cycling scene’s prime time. And bikes. Picture a 14-year-old cyclist who heard about 6-speed freewheels but never saw one. Picture me watching on color TV how our … Read more