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A Race for Madmen

A Race for Madmen gives context and color to the legendary stories that have made it into our collective cycling consciousness. It’s like a well-executed team time trial — graceful, fluid and a beautiful thing to experience.

Fausto Coppi and Jean Robic ride up Alpe d'Huez in the 1952 Tour de France

Pedalare! Pedalare!

Pedalare! Pedalare! is light on tales of racing, heavy on the analysis of Italian society, generous with introductions to notable Italian cyclists and absorbed with The Golden Age of Italian Cycling. It performs well, deserves respect and is worth a read.

It’s All About the Bike

A devotional to one of humankind’s greatest inventions, It’s All About the Bike celebrates the tradition, lore and beauty of bicycles. It delivers a mature winning performance that can be appreciated for its simplicity, elegance and manner.

Alpe d’Huez

Alpe d’Huez is a rewarding and animated feast of the defining and signature Tour de France moments and the stories behind them. It is a smart, imaginative, and engaging profile of “the cathedral of climbs.”

Geraint Thomas and Team Sky ride into Paris on the last stage of the 2018 Tour de France

The Tour According to G

For a GC contender there’s no hiding in the high mountains of the Tour de France, and The Tour According to G hides nothing from its readers. It’s forthcoming, direct, jovial and rousing. It delivers a strong winning performance from the Grand Départ to the Champs-Élysées.

The Tour is Won on the Alpe

Although The Tour is Won on the Alpe doesn’t fulfill its book-flap promise, it still puts in a strong performance, like a dedicated gregario or domestique riding in support of his team leader. It’s a performance worth a top 10 stage placement.

Greg Lemond in the final stage time trial of the 1989 Tour de France

Étape: 20 Great Stages From the Modern Tour de France

Étape is an engrossing celebration of the Tour de France. It reanimates memorable stages and moments, mostly from the late 1980s through 2012, and it’s a master work of cycling history and storytelling.

For a month-to-month list of Colorado cycling events and century rides, the Bicycle Colorado events calendar is a comprehensive resource. And for Colorado bike races, the USA Cycling and BikeReg event calendars are worth having in your saddle bag, if you race with a saddle bag.

Gi-no, Gi-no, Gi-no...

July 18, 1914 — May 5, 2000

3x Giro champion. 2x Tour winner. 4x Milan-San Remo victor. 3x Giro di Lombardia top of the podium. Plus, two Tours de Suisse, five Giri di Toscana, 12 individual stage wins at the #TourdeFrance and 17 individual stage wins at the #GirodItalia.

Three of those Tour stage wins were consecutive mountain stages (13, 14 and 15) in the 1948 Tour. A feat that hasn’t been equaled since.

It was more than 50 years before anyone else won three consecutive stages in the Tour. That someone was sprinter Mario Cipollini who took four consecutive flat stages in the early part of the 1999 race.

Overall, #Bartali won seven stages in the 1948 Tour: the opening stage, then two in a row entering the Pyrenees (stages 7 and 8), the three consecutive Alpine stages, and finally stage 19 into Liège.

#GinoBartali won the 1948 Tour by over 26 minutes — 10 years after his first win and still the biggest gap in between victories.

Gi-no, Gi-no, Gi-no…

Siamo Bartaliano!

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Confucius, the Chinese philosopher and paragon of Chinese sages, is reputed to have said, “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential, and the 719 Ride . . . these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

What is it about the 719 Ride that could possibly prompt the most significant thinker in East Asian history to say something like that?

Is it the intense pain and excellent fun the #cyclingevent delivers? Is it the test of physical and mental toughness administered by The Course That Cannot Be Defeated? What is it?

Come to #ColoradoSprings and find out for yourself. Unlock the door!

We ride Saturday, July 17, 2021. Registration is only $17.19.

Learn more at 719ride.com. The link is in our bio.

FULL DISCLOSURE. Confucious didn’t actually say the 719 Ride part. The rest of the quote is his though. And it’s true. Even the 719 Ride part. He also did NOT make handcrafted bamboo bicycles.

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Cycling is a sport of toil, endurance and suffering. That’s what provides the sense of theater. It’s also what “The Father of the #TourdeFrance” #HenriDesgrange loved about cycling.

Desgrange didn’t allow riders to receive any assistance in the early Tours, disliked and discouraged the emergence of teams, and kept derailleurs out of the race while he was the race director. He felt it was “better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur.”

If you, like Desgrange, enjoy the toil, endurance and suffering of cycling, then the 719 Ride #cyclingevent in #ColoradoSprings is made for you.

Come ride The Course That Cannot Be Defeated and let us know if it is like gelato for your soul. It is relentless and unwavering and will only stop when you stop. Plus, you ride it without aid stations on the route or at the start/finish. It is a true test of mental toughness, a fantastic sufferfest and excellent fun.

Learn more at 719ride.com. The link is in our bio.

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Promote the cycling identity of #ColoradoSprings and our homegrown, grassroots #cyclingevent with this new t-shirt design.

Colorado Springs contains all the necessary bicycling elements to quicken the pulse, invigorate the legs, multiply the corpuscles of the blood and exhilarate the mind.

* Year-round cycling weather with life giving sunshine and dry “thin” air.
* A history and commitment to bicycle recreation and competition.
* Unparalleled training grounds including challenging up-angled terrain, extensive singletrack and an expansive network of urban and soft-surface trails with 100 miles of on-street bicycle routes, nearly 120 miles of paved urban bike paths and more than 60 miles of mountain bike trails.

The result is ColoRide Springs, a city of spectacular natural beauty with an enthusiastic, active and vibrant bicycling community and a government supportive of bicycles.

ColoRide Springs is simply a great place to ride a bike. Let the world know it.

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What’s at the top of this #719Ride climb?

More climbing! Then, there’s more climbing after that.

9,190’ in 71.9 miles. You’ll notch more than 12,000’ if you’re game for a century. 😲

All that climbing can be yours for the super low price of $17.19, along with free photographs of your glory on The Course That Cannot Be Defeated and discounts from several local #ColoradoSprings businesses including:

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Learn more via any of the links in our bio.

Hope to see you July 17!

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A #GiosTorino brought to you by the passionate cyclists at @oldtownbikeshop in #downtowncoloradosprings

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#CBDinfused #tiresealant made by the passionate #cyclists at @goatheadbikeco and @twisted_spoke_apothecary. The hemp-based craze has finally made it into your tires.

CBD-infused tire sealant not only stops leaks, the anti-inflammatory properties of CBD help prevent premature wear to your tires. The relaxation also provides extra suppleness to the rubber, and supple rubber means more confidence in gnarly downhills.

THC-free formulation means the Goat Head CBD Tire Sealant by Twisted Spoke is approved for race use and legal in all 50 states!

Whether an avid racer or a weekend warrior, this sealant is for everyone!

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Four helmets enjoying #pikespeakrestaurantweek at @homacafebar, the craft cafe and bar at @kinshiplanding - a host hotel for this year’s 719 Ride. Details at 719ride.com/discounts. The link is in the bio. 😲

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Pasquale Fornara, 4x Tour de Suisse champion, leads Louison Bobet in the Tour de France.

Fornara also won the 1956 Tour de Romandie and finished on the podium in two Grand Tours: third in the 1953 Giro dItalia and second in the 1958 Vuelta a España.

Buona Pasqua. Happy Easter.

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Ottavio Bottecchia —2x #TourdeFrance champion, the first Italian winner 🇮🇹 and the first rider to wear the maillot jaune for the entire race.

The only French Bottecchia knew when he took part in his first Tour in 1923 was, “No bananas, lots of coffee, thank you,” just what was necessary to get his food rations for each stage.

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#FaustoCoppi. Gino Bartali. The two most famous cyclists in the world in the 1940s and 1950s. Their rivalry dominated #cycling and divided Italy. Nobody remained neutral.

An immensely strong climber, ‘The Man of Iron’ possessed extraordinary physical gifts. In Stage 13 of the 1948 Tour de France, #Bartali gained 19 minutes on the race leader. Riding through snow and fog in the mountains, he won the day and climbed into second place overall, just over a minute back.

Bartali went on to win that Tour, claiming his second victory, 10 years after first conquering La Grande Boucle.

Sei Bartaliano? Are you for Bartali?

#Coppi was gangly and physically awkward off the bike, but he seemed born to sit in the saddle. He was a complete rider who climbed with power and grace. He appeared to ride effortlessly, floating away from his competitors. And when he won, which he did a lot, it was usually in spectacular and dramatic fashion.

In the 1946 Milan San-Remo, Coppi rode more than half the race alone and finished 14 minutes ahead of the next rider. Bartali was another 10 minutes back.

And Coppi’s ride over the mountains in Stage 17 of the 1949 Giro d’Italia is legendary. He rode unaccompanied for nearly 200 kilometers, winning the stage by 12 minutes. #GinoBartali came in second that day.

Sei Coppiani? Are you for Coppi?

Bartali won the Tour de France twice and the Giro d’Italia three times. He was a four-time Italian National Champion, three-time victor in the Giro di Lombardia and four-time winner of Milan-San Remo.

Coppi won the Tour twice, the Giro five times, and claimed both in the same year on two occasions. He was a World Champion, the Hour Record Holder, and three-time victor of Milan-San Remo. He won the Giro di Lombardia five times and included victories in Paris-Roubaix and La Flèche Wallonne in his palmarès.

Sei Coppiano o sei Bartaliano?

Are you for Fausto, or are you with Gino?

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