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A paean to the cycling cap

The cotton twill cap that graced the stunning crania of Eddy Merckx, Fausto Coppi and Jacques Anquetil has yet to go the way of the Dodo. It’s fair to ask why. If everyone stopped making cotton cycling caps tomorrow, would we rue the loss? We’re not talking old-growth forest or snail darter. If tomorrow every [...]

The Coppi's Prayer

Fausto Coppi

Let us pray:

O Coppi, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name      The Giro done, thy Tour be won      On Sestrière as it was in ’49 and ’52.

Give us this day our steel Bianchi      And forgive us our carbon fiber      As we forgive those who cause us [...]

l’Alpe d’Huez

Ah, l’Alpe d’Huez … books have been written about this mountain.

I cannot think of a more beautiful stage of any Tour de France than those that finish atop l’Alpe.

From Fausto Coppi’s win on the maiden stage in 1952, to Greg LeMond’s battle with Bernard Hinault in 1986, to Andy Hampsten’s solo excursion in [...]