
That's My Boy
The joy of riding with Archie
Former pro cyclist. Racing, travel, memory, design, people, places, and whatever else stays with me long enough to become a sentence. Views here are my own.
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The joy of riding with Archie

A Tour de France my daughter doesn’t need to dream about

How three weeks of relentless racing were fixed in memory by one final stage in Paris

The greatest racers of their generation light up Paris

Sepp Kuss, Richard Carapaz and the yellow jersey at work

Three minutes, twelve kilometres and one impossible chase

A force of nature, a difficult mountain and a sickening question

The peloton decides

The race of truth, a 50p entry fee and the club that changed my life

Paid subscriptions, night-time testing and a monstrous ride from Quinn Simmons