Monthly Archives: August 2008

Club des Cinglés du Mont-Ventoux – full report

The Club des Cinglés du Mont-Ventoux is not just a club for grimpeurs, but anyone who is crazy enough to want to climb Mont Ventoux three times in one day. The Club has been previewed already here, but my full report is now on Pez Cycling News.

August 13, 2008 – 8:42 am | By Guy WR | Posted in Classic Climbs | Comments (0)

Test your Tour knowledge!

In 1977, Geoffrey Nicholson’s book The Great Bike Race was published, a report on the 1976 Tour de France and one of the early works in a developing tradition of British writing on cycling that continues today. Nicholson is perhaps the doyen of this tradition, having opened up the reporting and literary possibilities of European …

August 6, 2008 – 7:08 pm | By Guy WR | Posted in Climbers | Comments (3)