Our new book is the first in our latest Blue Series. It’s an enthralling deep dive into the history of cycling. The first year chosen was 1989, an important year in cycling and one that saw overwhelming changes going on around the world. A book of pure history, one that you won’t be able to put down.
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“The man is a one-person torrent, a singular point of focus, a machine. He is wildly, crazily alert, oddly sensitive, weirdly funny, deeply intelligent, belligerent and kind. He is hard to understand and the easiest person to identify with. There is no one like him.”
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Introducing The Blue Series and the first stunning edition that will stretch over 130 years. Years of research and passion have come together to capture cycling history, Road Book style.
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It had been forty-two years since Sicily, this proud, confusing island, hosted its own stage race. But this spring it returned, as the Giro di Sicilia once again took up its place in the calendar. How it came to be is something of a mystery.
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In the build-up to this weekend’s edition of Paris-Roubaix, have a read of Philippe Gilbert’s account of his victory in 2019, from The Road Book 2019. This essay was one of our editor, Ned Boulting’s favourite ‘Classics’ themed pieces and as such has been selected to join the Road Book Retrospective series.
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If you’re born in Flanders, there’s a bigger chance than anywhere else in the world that you will become a cycling fan. That’s exactly what happened to me.
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Shortly after Niki Terpstra had finished fourth in the 2017 edition of Gent-Wevelgem, a journalist from L’Equipe finally asked him the question that was on everyone’s mind: ‘Nikki’, he said, ‘why are you so unpopular?’
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