The cliché goes that you never judge a book by its cover. But a good title can tell you much. “The Crying of Lot 49” is precise, mysterious and reveals a love of language that a ...
Tag Archives: Jacques Anquetil
Real Racing
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 ...
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 ...