A Tour route to tempt Remco, with a brutal sting in the Pyrenees, and a women’s race spending a third of its nine days in Britain: bold ambition or a squeeze too far? We discuss troubling culture reports at Picnic PostNL and British Cycling, ask whether cycling’s contract exits are about money, opportunity or both, and let fly in our new feature, Can We Say? Plus, Chris remembers British cycling pioneer Vin Denson.
📸 Vin Denson’s passing on 14 October, aged 90, means we said goodbye to the last of British cycling’s great pioneering generation. Along with Brian Robinson, Tom Simpson and Barry Hoban, Vin helped pave the way for generations of British professionals on the continent. On 26 May 1966, however, Vin himself made British cycling history in Campobasso, winning stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia and becoming the first British rider to win a stage of La Corsa Rosa. In a pro career that ran from 1961 to 1969, he won the 1965 Tour of Luxembourg and rode six Tours de France, while serving champions Jacques Anquetil and Rik Van Looy as well as riding with both Tom and Barry. (Cycling Legends collection)
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