Monthly Archives: February 2010

The grimpeur in decline?

A recent debate hosted by Cosmo Catalano on climbers in cycling raised two important questions: firstly, is there such a thing as a pure climber, a grimpeur; secondly, are pure climbers – assuming that there are such riders – becoming rare, due to better training by non-climbers and doping. To address the first question, your

Cooling off with le blaireau

A cold and rainy day in Vancouver might have been a good day for your author to complete his series of posts on Greg LeMond (see part 1, part 2, and part 3) , or to perhaps do some further research on an upcoming feature on the 1983 Tour de France and the arrival of