Beryl, by Jeremy Wilson
A biography of Beryl Burton, seven-time World Champion
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A biography of Beryl Burton, seven-time World Champion
William Fotheringham’s self-published biography of Beryl Burton, seven-time World Champion
The 1910 Tour has given rise to no end of nonsense, not least the claim that Octave Lapize called the race organisers assassins as he crossed the Col d’Aubisuqe an hour behind schedule + 15 minutes behind a nobody.
The story of Alphonse Steinès night on the Tourmalet and the telegram he subsequently sent to Henri Desgrange has gone down in legend. Remarkably, there was no telegram, and much of what is said about Steinès’s night on the mountain is a fiction.
Raphaël Géminiani is one of the larger than life characters from cycling’s golden age, best known for his association with Jacques Anquetil. In ‘Raincoats are for Tourists’ he shares some of the lessons learned during a long and illustrious career in cycling.