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Today’s The Cycling Wire brings you essays about Sean Kelly, Portland’s kermesses, and pills. A sprinter who won almost everything In 1984 Sean Kelly reached #1 ranking in professional cycling. The rise started a year before though, at the 1983 Il Lombardia where he beat, and check this list out: …
I often find some interesting pieces on the Internet to read. Thought you might find them interesting too. In fact, I’ll send these on a regular basis between The Russian Crank newsletter editions and call it The Cycling Wire. Here’s the first punch. Big and heavy? You still gonna ride …
Just when we thought the disc brake debate has ended, here comes Chris Froome saying, I don’t think the technology is quite where it needs to be yet for road cycling. Whoa. When was the last time a rider of Froome’s caliber openly said a new technology bike manufacturers want …
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 …
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 …
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 …