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  Book review: “The Secret Race” by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle

  It’s the fall guys that make history. History is their requiem.
 ~ Raymond Chandler   If David Millar’s Racing Through the Dark is this generation’s A Rough Ride ...

  On September 17, 2012 / By fmk
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  Book review: “The Price of Gold” by Marty Nothstein

    By the time Marty Nothstein hung up his wheels in 2006 he was the most decorated American track cyclist of all time. In his time he had ...

  On August 14, 2012 / By fmk
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  Book Review: “Riis – Stages of Light and Dark” by Bjarne Riis

  “Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.” ~ Akira Kurosawa     Bjarne Riis’s autobiography really should ...

  On June 6, 2012 / By fmk
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  Book Review: Daniel Friebe’s “Eddy Merckx – The Cannibal”

  “As a human being … Merckx is a human being. He is not a saint.  He was treated like one from the age of twenty-one – and after ...

  On April 23, 2012 / By fmk
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  Book Review: “Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike” by William Fotheringham

  “He has robotised himself. There are no aspirations, no sense of destiny, just an awareness that he is set apart, unique. So he has transformed himself into a ...

  On April 19, 2012 / By fmk
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  Review: True Champion Or Cheat

  I recently took a look at the new anti-doping education website set up by the UCI in an effort to combat doping, it’s called http://www.truechampionorcheat.org/. The aim behind ...

  On November 5, 2012 / By admin
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  Review: Mark Johnson’s Argyle Armada

  “Honest people don’t hide their deeds.” ~ Emily Brontë   There’s a scene in Mark Johnson’s Argyle Armada that, for me, just about sums up what’s so cool ...

  On April 25, 2012 / By fmk
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  Review of the 3LC Ladies Road Race DVD

  Amy Dombroski is a professional cyclist who grew up on a dirt road in Jericho, VT and raced alpine skis through high school. From there, she followed her brother to ...

  On January 9, 2012 / By AmyDombroski
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  Our top 12 stories for 2012

  12. Feargal McKay’s book review of The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle   11. The UCI Overlord’s It’s not about the jerseys   10. Frank Mercer’s Team ...

  On December 31, 2012 / By admin
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  It’s the 2012 Overlordies!

  It’s December. It’s the end of the year, but fortunately not the end of the world (fooking Zombie apocalypsers). That can only mean one thing – it’s time ...

  On December 21, 2012 / By admin