Giro d’Italia 2020 Stage 1: shabby chic and golden-boy Ganna
Filippo Ganna has got the midas touch. He’s young, Italian and handsome. He’s possessed of a lovely, lithe, flat-backed styleContinue Reading
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Strade Bianche 2020: the dust settles for van Aert
Strade Bianche, one hundred and eighty K’s across the rolling hills and white roads of Tuscany, Italy, is all aboutContinue Reading
Operation Tuscany (part 2)
Why, I ask myself, am I fiddling and fettling my winter bike? It’s July, nearly August. That menial hack shouldContinue Reading
Italian skinny
“Are you in shape?” he asks, looking me up and down. A loaded question. He hasn’t even said hello yet.Continue Reading
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