I was watching a shot from a motorcycle as it sped from past a Sky riding getting dropped from the main group, past a dwindling peloton containing Alejandro Valverde, Tejay Van Garderen and two ...
Tag Archives: Jacques Anquetil
Tying Off the Past
Now that Pat McQuaid has been voted out of the UCI presidency and the troubled institution is being led by Brian Cookson, there is some reasonable hope that a Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...
Tuesdays with Wilcockson: Over the Tourmalet
Jacques Anquetil, from the 1959 Tour—the first use of color film in the Tour de France Someone asked me the other day at the Tour de France what was my favorite climb of all in this ...
The Rapha Five Decades T-shirts
I hadn’t planned on doing a second review of Rapha products right on the heels of my first, and it might not be fair to insert them into the current controversy with Lance Armstrong, but I ...
Tuesdays with Wilcockson #4
Hailstones, snowstorms and survivors I was taken aback last week when I heard about a field of pro racers coming to a halt during the opening stage of Argentina’s Tour de San Luis. It wasn’t ...
Tuesdays With Wilcockson #1
The typewriter … and other machines The French reporter was sweating profusely as he pushed the telephone into an acoustic coupler, one of those slow-speed, low-tech contraptions we used ...
Excerpt: Cycling Heroes—Jan Janssen, Part I
Les Woodland climbed aboard his old Carlton bike to take a nostalgia trip across Belgium and Holland to visit some of cycling’s greatest riders. Cycling Heroes: The Golden Years tells the story ...
Excerpt: Les Woodland’s Tourmen
The Tour’s current status as a wealthy, far-reaching business enterprise that is the heart of the professional racing calender is huge reversal of fortune. There are teams who argue that ...
The 1967 Giro d’Italia
[Editor’s note: Bill and Carol McGann recently published the first in their two-volume history of the Giro d’Italia. I haven’t had time to actually read it yet, but I recall ...
1930s Team France: Almost the Greatest Team Ever
Back in July, Team Astana was clearly not only the strongest team in the 2009 Tour de France peloton, but also one of the most powerful teams that had been put together in recent years. La ...