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  Riishomon: A Hero’s Tale (Part 2)

  Our look at Bjarne Riis’s rise to the top of cycling’s greasy pole continues, picking up the story of the 1996 Tour de France on the first day ...

  On May 31, 2012 / By fmk
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  Riishomon: A Hero’s Tale (Part 1)

  With the publication of the English-language translation of Bjarne Riis’s autobiography – Riis: Stages of Light and Darkness (Vision Sports Publishing) – let’s turn the clock back and ...

  On May 29, 2012 / By fmk
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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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  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 – The Vulpine Softshell Jacket

  After a nail-biter of a week* wondering if the Department of Homeland Security was going to blow up my package from Vulpine® as it sat in FedEx purgatory ...

  On April 12, 2012 / By Lesli Cohen
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  The Secret of Savona

  Eddy Merckx has recently been inducted into the Giro d’Italia’s newly established Hall of Fame. The corsa rosa is a race he won five times between 1968 and ...

  On April 11, 2012 / By admin
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  Amy Dombroski reviews the 3 Legs Cycling Sprint DVD

  When I was driving to Holland for a ‘cross race I noticed how odd it seemed to see windmills not moving. In a windmill farm of ten, only ...

  On February 29, 2012 / By AmyDombroski
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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