The Elusive Robert Millar
We still don’t know all about Millar, but now we at least know enough to perceive and understand something of the real man beneath the journalists’ accounts of a kind of cycling hermit. [click title for more]
Biographies
The Life and Death of Marco Pantani
In this detailed account of his last few years, his manager Manuela Ronchi, writing shortly after his death, attempts to ‘loyally reconstruct the life of the champion’. [click title for more]
A Peiper’s Tale
Peiper looks back at his career: the tough kid upbringing, with the drunken and violent father, the mother who worked herself to exhaustion to make ends meet, a dislike for school and any kind of formal education, the former bike-champion grandfather, and the discovery that on a bike he could beat all the other kids and didn’t have to rely on anyone else. [click title for more]
Tom Simpson Lives
Put Me Back on my Bike is a considerable achievement. It seeks the truth, it probably gets as close as we ever will, and best of all it brings the man to life. [click title for more]
The True Story of Tom Simpson
We see Tom Simpson as a victim of a disastrous system, in which sponsors and team officials, at the very least, condone or turn a blind eye to what their riders feel obliged to do in order to remain competitive. [click title for more]
