Cycling chat & a collection of stories celebrating the history and heroes of the most beautiful sport in the world. Puncheurs, grimpeurs, flahutes and rouleurs.
In the 1890s, five of the most prominent athletes as track racing boomed in the US were women. These five—Lizzie Glaw. Helen Baldwin. May Allen. Tillie Anderson and Dottie Farnsworth—barnstormed all over the country, billed as "The Big Five" and kicked ass.
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That was 9 years ago... •Today’s women’s race at the @uci_cycling road world championships was AMAZING! •There are so many other brilliant and exciting women’s cycling races throughout the season that hardly anyone gets to see, because the media just… https://t.co/AnVtM6dB2M
Carina Horn was using growth hormone & SARMs (basically steroids) to set a PB of 10.98
That’s 0.28 secs slower than Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce & Elaine Thompson’s PBs
It’s 0.14 secs slower than Dina Asher-Smith’s PB
& it’s a ridiculous 0.49 secs slower than Flo Jo’s world record!
Derek Harrison (Raleigh), seventh overall at the 1972 Tour of Switzerland climbing here with Dancelli, Pfenniger, Pingeon and Francesco Moser to the rear.
Pro road cycling is fucking rad but there's often the same love and passion in other disciplines such as ultra marathon, cyclocross and audax.
Sometimes, it's just great to see people getting mad wae it on bikes with their friends: