Monthly Archives: May 2009

Pedalare nel pasato

While France and England can probably take shared credit for the invention of the bicycle and its first mass production, Italy certainly deserves praise for the popularization of cycling. Italians have done much to sustain cycling as a sport over the years and were, of course, early adopters of the notion of the Grand Tour …

May 26, 2009 – 6:01 pm | By Guy WR | Posted in Local Climbs | Comments (3)

3′ 10″

The remarkable aspect of the Grand Tours in cycling is that despite covering hundreds of kilometres over several weeks, the margins of victory are often very small. Seconds and minutes are lost relentlessly as small time differences on insignificant stages can have the same effect as larger margins on key days. Such was the 1958 …

May 7, 2009 – 4:50 pm | By Guy WR | Posted in Classic Stages, Climbers | Comments (3)