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a double-shot of road racing reportage RACE SCHEDULE sat TEAM TIME TRIAL TRAINING 19 TIME TRIAL sept TRAINING sun WOMEN’S TEAM TIME TRIAL 20 MEN’S TEAM sept TIME TRIAL mon WOMEN’S JUNIOR TIME TRIAL 21 MEN’S UNDER 23 sept TIME TRIAL tue MEN’S JUNIOR TIME TRIAL 22 WOMEN’S ELITE sept TIME TRIAL wed MEN’S ELITE INDIVIDUAL 23 TIME TRIAL sept thu ROAD RACE 24 TRAINING sept fri WOMEN’S JUNIOR ROAD RACE 25 MEN’S UNDER 23 sept ROAD RACE IN 1986 IT WAS MORENO ARGENTIN’S BOUQUET to Rapha offers the Doppio, a three-issue sat MEN’S JUNIOR carry and stripes to take home in Colorado newspaper featuring collaborations with ROAD RACE Springs — that was the last time the UCI some of the sport’s best photographers 26 WOMEN’S ELITE WELCOME ROAD RACE Road World Championships came to the and writers. Here you’ll find a collection of sept United States. Charly Mottet took second, stories and photos from the racing season in and Giuseppe Saronni third. Jeannie Longo addition to notes on Rapha’s own events. sun MEN’S ELITE TO WORLDS won the women’s edition, with American Come and join us for a ride or a radler beer ROAD RACE Janelle Parks silver. at our ‘village’ on 811 West Cary Street. 27 The Worlds have returned to Richmond We’ll be there, celebrating the beauty of sept this year, a storied city in both American and Worlds and the story of Richmond. international racing. To mark the occasion, - Doppio editor Matthew Beaudin 02 . doppio - worlds 2015 a double-shot of road racing reportage . 03 Richmond’s first road stage winner in 1989. He followed be able to see the Silca Super up with the fastest evening time trial under the city’s street RAPHA IN RICHMOND Pista pumps painted by Taylor lights, but couldn’t quite close the gap to the GC winner, Phinney. There will be drinks the Norwegian Dag Otto Lauritzen. Vanderaerden’s four and light fare available. ECHOES stage wins encapsulated his career – a showcase of both the From Thursday 24th to talent that got him pegged as the next Eddy Merckx, and Sunday 27th September, the the inability to win stage races that made living up to that ‘Rapha Village’ will be the MORNINGSATURDAY RIDE expectation impossible. perfect place to experience OF Fresher talent impressed the following year. The 19-year- the Worlds. The Mobile Cycle 8:30am roll out, no-drop Issue 1, September 2015 old Russian rider Vladislav Bobrik rode into Richmond Club North America (pictured pace, 30-40 miles. Come early 22 minutes ahead of the peloton, seizing the leader’s jersey below) will be serving the if you would like to upload a P.04 for eight days before his spectacular collapse on the Devil’s finest coffee and a dedicated GPS file. Helmets required, no ALONG THE ROADS Kitchen climb in the Catskills. retail area will be providing a aero-bars please. We will aim Photo agency BrakeThrough GREATNESS Australia’s Phil Anderson won in Richmond in 1991, and selection of Rapha’s products, to stop and watch the junior Media presents a stunning again in the infamously pugilistic 1992 sprint, spurred on all just one block away from race mid-ride. collection of images of fans The arrival of the road world championships by the 10-second bonus on offer that he hoped would gnaw the road race course on 811 CONQUER THE COBBLES lining the roadsides at bicycle in Richmond will be the rousing crescendo away at Greg LeMond’s overall lead. The Indian-American West Cary Street. races around the world. of racing in a city which has only enjoyed Olympic gold medalist Alexi Grewal won the next day’s Ride the course with Rapha. downtown circuit race, a farewell display of ethereal talent 6:30pm roll out. We’ll aim sporadic echoes of the sport’s highest level. THURSDAY at the end of a vexing career. And in the race’s final year, a MORNING RIDE to get to the start of the race P.12 24-year-old Lance Armstrong stomped away on the cobbled course by 7pm for two hours THE PINHOLE Words RYAN NEWILL ramp of Taylor’s Hill to a solo win, building the foundation 10am roll out, no-drop pace, CASEY B. GIBSON An essay on the habits and Photos of his second consecutive Tour DuPont victory. It was the 30-40 miles. Come early if pleasures of riding a bicycle last major victory of his career’s first act. you would like to upload a before the sun comes Along with Armstrong, a generation of young American GPS file. Helmets required, no up, by Rapha writer pros that would shape cycling’s next decade – for good aero-bars please. DESPITE BEING A CRADLE OF AMERICAN HISTORY Matthew Beaudin. from colonial times and ill – cut their teeth on the Tour DuPont, where they through to the Civil War, Richmond has never managed faced off against giants of the sport. LeMond began his Road stage finales, FRIDAY to claim its rightful place in the history of US cycling. 1989 comeback with a modest ride in Richmond, and won MORNING RIDE of riding on the Elite Road BIKE SHOPP.14 WORLDS Nestled in the Piedmont region, Virginia’s capital doesn’t time trials and outright in 1992. Gianni Bugno raced in rainbow stripes Race Course. Please note you have Boulder’s training terrain and dozens of resident pros, criteriums were all with his Gatorade team-mate Laurent Fignon, who was by 8:30am roll out, no-drop pace, must already be registered The story of the ‘Friday Portland’s bike-friendly infrastructure, or Philadelphia’s carved from the city’s then past his prime, and seemingly happier for it. Gert- 30-40 miles. Come early if with the official event on Worlds’, an amateur race 30-year tradition of top-level racing on the first weekend of Jan Theunisse brought Alpe d’Huez-winning talent to you would like to upload a rapha.cc to participate. in Richmond between the June. Nor can it boast Sommerville’s lineage, stretching back cobblestone streets the Appalachians’ less renowned switchbacks, while Erik GPS file. Helmets required, no mechanics and shop assistants to American cycling’s jazz-era roots, or northern California’s aero-bars please. PIVOTAL PAVÉ of a local bike shop. cycling scene and current international stage race. The narrow, Breukink and Andy Hampsten, who battled over the snowy SUNDAY cobbled 250-meter climb up to SUPER PISTA ART RACE VIEWING Yet while Richmond might not enjoy a reputation as one Gavia pass in the 1988 Giro d’Italia, received a warmer EXHIBITION BY of America’s cycling meccas, when it opens its doors for the Libby Hill Park in the historic welcome in Virginia. We will show the elite Church Hill neighborhood is TAYLOR PHINNEY P.16 UCI Road World Championships it will have fought its way These high-profile visitors helped forge America’s men’s road race under our BROTHERS IN ARMS sure to be the focal point of many back to the forefront of American cycling after two decades attacks during the road races. enduring reputation as a place where European pros, From 4.30-6.30pm. tent all day on Sunday. The Rapha Prestige Los An- in the relative wilderness. famously loath to stray from the continent, wanted to visit Join us for an afternoon Come by for espresso, lunch, geles: an unsupported, When the westward-leaning Coors Classic folded in 1988, and race. They loved the big hotel rooms and menus that benefitting the Davis Phinney and special edition Ardent + unsanctioned, and unmar- the decidedly eastern Tour de Trump filled the American extended beyond overcooked pasta and boiled chicken. They Foundation, where you will Rapha radlers. shalled team adventure stage-race vacuum the following year. Beginning in Albany, loved the wide roads and the enormous purses. But maybe through stunning terrain. the first edition reached its southern terminus in Richmond most of all, they loved the reception they received. At home, before turning north-east to finish in front of Donald they were horseflesh. Here, they were rock stars. Trump’s Atlantic City casino. Trump’s real estate empire Even if North American cycling never really fell in love GREATESTP.18 BRITON slid into bankruptcy after the 1990 race, at which point the with Richmond, the city has embraced the sport anyway. Delaware-based chemical giant DuPont picked up the baton. During the eight years of the Tour DuPont, crowds Fifty years ago, plucky Tom From the start through to the Tour’s 1996 swansong, estimated at up to 60,000 packed into the city’s downtown, Simpson shocked the cycling Richmond was the only city to host at least one stage in swamping roadside capacity and transforming well-placed world by taking the rainbow every edition. Road stage finales, time trials, criteriums and parking decks into luxury boxes. In two decades since, those jersey, becoming the first circuit races were all carved from the city’s cobblestone heady days have reverberated through the city’s annual British rider to do so. streets, its old tobacco warehouse district and the steep CapTech Classic criterium and 2007’s US Open Cycling eastward slopes overlooking the James River’s bend toward Championships. The echo might have grown faint at times, the Chesapeake. but it was always there. The Belgian Eric Vanderaerden, winner of the Ronde The cycling world will find familiar roads, familiar faces, van Vlaanderen, Paris-Roubaix and a handful of Tour de and a familiar spirit at these world championships, and Cover photo by ANDY BOKANEV France stages, triumphed in a bunch sprint to become Richmond’s name will ring out once more.

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