a double-shot of road racing reportage

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IN 1986 IT WAS ’S BOUQUET to Rapha offers the Doppio, a three-issue sat MEN’S JUNIOR carry and stripes to take home in 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 . took second, stories and photos from the racing season in and third. 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 , 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 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 , 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 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 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 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. raced in rainbow stripes Race Course. Please note you have Boulder’s training terrain and dozens of resident pros, were all with his Gatorade team-mate , 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 ’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 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 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. -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 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 , winner of the Ronde The cycling world will find familiar roads, familiar faces, van Vlaanderen, -Roubaix and a handful of Tour de and a familiar spirit at these world championships, and Cover photo by ANDY BOKANEV stages, triumphed in a bunch sprint to become Richmond’s name will ring out more. 04 . doppio - worlds 2015 a double-shot of road racing reportage . 05

ROADSIDE REVELRY Opposite page: , April 2015. Below, clockwise from top left: , July ALONG 2015; Tour de France, July 2015; Paris-Roubaix, April 2015; Tour THE de France, July 2015. ROADS They are close enough to whisper to the riders. Close enough to touch them as the peloton streaks by, a blurred stream of confetti. And sometimes, too close. Photos BRAKETHROUGH MEDIA 06 . doppio - worlds 2015 a double-shot of road racing reportage . 07

IN THE SUN AND THE SNOW Opposite page: Tour de France, July 2015. Below: Gent- Wevelgem, March 2015.

They line the floss-thin roads of climbs in the snow and rain, and they stand along entire Tour stages for just a glimpse of the bunch. Old women in their lawn chairs wait in the middle of nowhere, and children rest upon their fathers’ shoulders just to see. 08 . doppio - worlds 2015 a double-shot of road racing reportage . 09

A FLASH OF PEDALS Oppposite page, clockwise from top left: Tour de France, July 2015; Ronde van Vlaanderen, April 2015; Giro d’Italia, May 2015; Ronde van Vlaanderen, April 2015. Below: E3 Harelbeke, March 2015.

Cycling is a sport played out upon the open roads and in an open arena; there is no barrier between rider and reveler. Risky? Occasionally. But without an audience, what is sport? And what an audience it is. 10 . doppio - worlds 2015 a double-shot of road racing reportage . 11 HUP-HUP

In both Holland and , the word ‘hup’ - meaning ‘go’ - is shouted repeatedly by fans to encourage the passing riders. 12 . doppio - worlds 2015 a double-shot of road racing reportage . 13

THE LIGHT BLASTS THROUGH THE WET AIR and burns a hole on the The contrast between white and black is staggering. All briefly, because it doesn’t matter what is out there, not at all. black road. The eyes find it and strain to see the lattice of that will keep you safe is the light in front of you, punching Somewhere after the first climb there are the inevitable cracks and debris washing up at the edge of light and dark. a pinhole through the dark. This is riding by feel, with an thoughts. That you are out riding when no one else is. That For the next hour, this pinhole of light is all that matters. eyelash-thin faith that the drivers will see you and that there you are going to win races and not get dropped because of THE Moments ago the bike was a clothesline, legwarmers isn’t a wheel-eating pothole under the brief and passing blast this morning. That you are tougher than most because you draped over the bars and a jacket on the saddle. Shoes and of the light. are foolish enough to do this thing you are doing now, just overshoes by the rear wheel, shorts and jersey heaped on the In the dark, the beauty is hidden from the rider. Where you, floating down a dark, pavement river. floor in a pile. there is normally a heavy lean into a well-known corner there The pace increases when you turn for home, because the PINHOLE Down the apartment stairs and out the door. Snap-snap is now a creaky suggestion of a descent. The dark makes a clock ticks and ticks and the dawn is a slow wave breaking into pedals, and the road heads up through a neighborhood stranger of the road, and it’s a constant strain to see the pores over the morning, pushing you toward the responsibility of An essay by Matthew Beaudin. in Northwest Portland that is yet to wake. The city abruptly of pavement when the speed picks up. For the next hour, daylight. The sounds of cars and a city awakening replace the gives way to the hush of the woods, whose great pines The danger remains the charm. There is all-consuming this pinhole of light whir of a rear hub. A man sweeps the sidewalk and workers swallow both light and noise. focus on the blade of light ahead of the front wheel. Soon, is all that matters, it scrub the neighbourhood’s bar tops. The waitress at the A car passes, giving feet of room on the right. What must the dawn will whittle away at the dark and the din of others French bakery on the corner pulls out a tray of croissants the driver think of the lone cyclist whose only indication will overtake your own measured breath and click-click is all that will keep from the oven. A small reward for the dark miles. of existence from behind is a red tail-light? Misguided, is chorus, but right now the morning belongs to only a few. You you safe through the The phone buzzes. The early morning is now gone, and Photos JORDAN REID probably what. Some mornings they are right. wonder what is beyond this precious swathe of light but only pre-dawn dark the light turned off, until the next time. 14 .doppio - worlds 2015 a double-shot of road racing reportage . 15 BIKE SHOP WORLDS This isn’t the first time that Richmond has hosted the ‘Worlds’. Back in the early 1990s, a local shop was running its own version of the great race between its employees.

Words CHRIS DISTEFANO Photos JORDAN REID

THE WORLDS HAS BEEN TO RICHMOND BEFORE. In the early 1990s, The Creeps knew what every frame tubing decal of the riders met each Friday morning at the corner of West Cary shopfloor bikes meant in exacting detail and they knew and South Sheppard Streets for a challenging 25-mile course how to say Mavic, Campagnolo, or Vitus. Or at least they west of the city and back. “Friday Worlds” was the high point said them in novel ways that made them sound as if they of the week for the staff of Two Wheel Travel, a bicycle shop did. They had loud in bright colors and the new in Carytown. component sales pitches they gave were so good that A rivalry had grown between two factions in the store, they ended up buying the gear themselves. Faster, lighter, leading to the transformation of an irregular weekday smoother; it simply had to be better. Three Shop Apes training jaunt into the most hallowed of rides, the world versus three Counter Creeps each week for the world championships. No other race moniker conveys the championships, right here on West Cary Street, Richmond. distinction and importance of a road cycling contest to its In a time before Twitter, the shop would broadcast the participants than the race for the . weekly winner to customers by way of a trophy and medals. The Carytown riders did not compete for a jersey with Those crafty Shop Apes spray painted an old Campagnolo horizontal bands of green, yellow, black, red and blue across rear derailleur with gold paint, mounted it to a small plaque- the chest, though. The distinction of this jersey belongs only sized board, and adorned it with rainbow-stripe finishing to the winner of the elite world championships. Cycling tape from a box of handlebar cork ribbon. For second and culture has many rules for its devotees and while many of third place, pulleys, one painted silver and one bronze, were them are fatuous, carve this one in stone. hung from necklaces made of Benotto ribbon. It is a funny thing that most reverential fans of the sport While it was never proven with sales data, there did seem will refuse to wear a replica of the champion’s jersey yet to be an upturn in Friday business once customers began OUT TO LUNCH The shop is always will host a local training ride affixed with the ‘Worlds’ empty come ride time. dropping in at lunch or after work to see where the trophies title. But so it was with the races from Two Wheel Travel were mounted. Long before the 1996 ‘Super Sweep’ by Team almost 25 years ago. Each of the two teams, Shop Apes and -GB at Paris-Roubaix, the Shop Apes would take the Counter Creeps, wanted the win, the trophy, the adulation of top three positions on several occasions. A change in staffing customers but, above all, to beat the other side. saw the Counter Creeps take on a new rider who would The Shop Apes were Richmond’s finest bicycle mechanics dominate the summer weeks. It was always a fierce affair. and their well-tuned bicycles were as silent as they were. The bike shop is now a restaurant and the trophies were Back among the workbenches and truing stands in jeans no doubt deposited in a rubbish bin long ago. As for those and black t-shirts they rarely made a sound other than when ‘Friday Worlds’ was Friday Worlds riders, it is likely that many are among the coaxed onto the sales floor to confirm a technical detail. The the high point of crowd in Richmond this week cheering for their favorite Shop Apes were pragmatic, making use of numerous ‘broken’ the week for the staff rider, the one most Apeish or Creepish. Virginia’s capital, or ‘worn out’ components abandoned by customers eager for for some, remains their home, while others are scattered the latest and lightest to trickle down from the pro ranks. of Two Wheel across the globe. No matter where they ride, though, The Counter Creeps wore collared shirts and “belts on Travel, a bicycle they will certainly line up soon to race yet another world pants with belt loops.” It said so in the employee manual. shop in Carytown championships of their own.

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A team from San Francisco was forced to take turns pushing one of its riders up the lonely, sepia-bathed valley just before the final checkpoint. And the Biergarten team was determined to finally finish within the cut-off time. BROTHERS “We were nowhere near the time limit the first year,” Eric Hill said. “Last year in Colorado we hit the cut-off time but a guy got sick right after that, so we didn’t finish. We just really wanted to get it done this year.” IN ARMS The team put their arms around Aaron Hulme, a rider with ship-hull thick shoulders, in the valley and pedaled on. “We just took turns rotating through and the last climb was The Rapha Prestige LA was an unsupported just a four-man train taking turns pushing him,” Hill said. and unsanctioned team adventure To accept help is to admit one needs it in the first place. through stunning terrain. And it was hot. There is vulnerability, trust, and humility. Ride long enough and we all come to know that moment. Sometimes you push, and sometimes you take the hand. To accept it and keep going is where the real strength of a cyclist lies. For their troubles they, and the others who made the cut- off, were met with one final aid-station oasis in the scorched mountains and a shark-toothed, sandblasted profile for some 20 miles – one that saw most teams walking large sections through powder-soft dirt. In true Prestige spirit, the teams found strength in numbers. “It was really invigorating to look ahead and behind me to see my rad teammates all sticking together, all yelling little yips of encouragement. Reaching the ‘summit’ and then Words MATTHEW BEAUDIN just letting it go on the decent was … awesome,” said Bud Photos KEVIN SCOTT BATCHELOR Reeder, a rider in one of two Rapha women’s teams. “I definitely remember screaming — like literally . THE CITY OF ANGELS. The southern California city screaming ‘when does this end? where is the top?!’” Reeder’s is toasted worldwide for its luster and silver-screen charm. teammate Lindsay Knight said. “That section of the Prestige When traveling abroad as an American, it’s best to just say was by far the dumbest thing I’ve ever ridden on 25s. By far.” you’re from California; at least people know where that is For some, it was the heat. For others, the hills. For one and think they have a general idea of what you might be like. team, blame was pinned on a train that forced them to wait But that’s west LA. On this day, we found ourselves in (maybe three minutes), and a line at In-N-Out burger that east Los Angeles – 20 or so miles from the LA that comes forced a second, also negligible, wait. to mind for most who don’t know the area – and a much Back at the start/finish area the tired and hungry pedaled different place entirely. in - dusty, salty and thirsty. A party had mysteriously broken Riders started the Rapha Prestige Los Angeles amidst out on the grounds and people wandered through dressed burned out cars and sinking mobile homes at the former up for a Kentucky Derby. artist enclave Zorthian Ranch, trickling into the San Gabriel We were told to stick around for naked theatrical nymphs Mountains in groups of four. (and indeed some came later). A llama trotted through the The parcours was as daunting as Rapha has put upon party and stopped near the finish line while teams rode in, North American Prestige riders: 125 miles and 14,000 feet offering a gap-toothed grin for their arrival. of elevation gain. Lots of dirt, lots of heavy road that resists easy rolling. Of all that was expected of us, it was the heat and the sand that did the real damage. In the hairdryer winds of mile 75, the salt lines formed on the black jersey in front of me drew a contour map. In each hour that passed, the contours deepened and spread with every climb, just as the pitches felt steeper as the day beat on. One rider hardly noticed almost riding over a baby rattlesnake. It flailed upward in a juvenile strike. “You know the young ones are the most dangerous, don’t you?” someone said. “They can’t control their venom.” There was a consensus reached in the middle of endeavor HOT AND HEAVY Out of 20 teams that this was one of the harder Prestige rides (formerly of four riders who started the the Gentlemen’s Race) Rapha has hosted, though it is well ride, only six made it to the finish known that riders all have very short memories. within the time limit. Alignam et is sum dolorem ipsus entendi siSolore senihil ligentem id maionsed quatem ne vel intectaqui opta

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“IT IS RAINING, BUT SIMPSON’S JOY SHINES THROUGH. IT IS THIS RAINBOW “There were a number of good riders present, half a dozen AMIDST THE STORM THAT ILLUMINATES THE SETTING: A WORLD CHAMPION’S THE LIFE OF ‘MR. TOM’ maximum, and a little group formed, with every nation bar JERSEY, WELL DESERVED AND WELL WORN.” the French represented: for , Peter – Émile Besson reporting for Miroir Sprint, 6th September 1965. Post for the Dutch, and along with , , for the Germans. The only people trying to On 5th September 1965, won the world BORN organise a chase behind were the French, and we just drew championships road race in a storm-swept San Sebastián, 30 November 1937, further and further away.” . Benefiting from a strong British team working County Durham, UK. This group formed the beginnings of the break that Tom in service of his efforts, Simpson attacked with two laps Simpson would eventually bridge to, with the help of his remaining of the 270km-course. As he and Rudi Altig DIED other British teammates. Having been forced out of that approached the finish line, a final surge was enough to 13 July 1967, year’s Tour de France early due to a bout of blood poisoning, separate him from the German sprinter by just three bike , France. Simpson was eager for a victory – and had set his sights on lengths. He became the first British rider to earn the men’s the world championships. According to reports, he even used road world title and its accompanying rainbow stripes – a CAREER his perceived weakness following the Tour as a bluff, in the feat only matched by in 2011 – propelling 1961 - First major hope of being dismissed as little threat to his competitors. both cycling and Simpson into the hearts and minds of the professional victory at the “When Tom joined us in the break, I asked how he was British public. . feeling. ‘I’m doing OK,’ he said. ‘Let’s keep away.’ There were , a promising young professional who’d 1962 - The first Briton to no hangers-on in the group, and everyone was working.” recently taken his first stage win at the Vuelta a wear yellow at the Riding selflessly for his fellow countryman, Hoban held España, was part of the British team in 1965, and was largely Tour de France. the pace high for more than three quarters of the 267km responsible for setting the ferocious pace that dominated 1965 - The first Briton to win race, ensuring the break was off-limits to all but the strongest the race. Fifty years later, Hoban recounts that rainy day in world road race title and first riders on the day. His job done, the rest was down to Tom. northern Spain, and the race that led to Britain’s first male cyclist to be named BBC Sports “I vividly remember approaching the last quarter of the road world champion. Personality of the Year. race, and Tom asking me how I was feeling. I was suffering. “I knew it was coming – and bang: in the first lap, a couple 1967 - Last major win at Tom said that if I felt like falling off, I should do it in front of of Portuguese and two or three Spaniards went up the road, Paris-Nice stage race. Balmamion [a rival of Tom’s]. Laughing, I said I’d rather not. and I was straight with them. I had ridden the Vuelta twice “Two laps from the end, Tom attacked. Altig went with and had learned a thing or two about how the Spanish and OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS him, and I shot out of the back, with everything exploding the Portuguese raced; they were never happy unless they had As an amateur, Tom won behind. Tom and Rudi knew each other very well, and there someone at the front, attacking early in most races. No one track-cycling bronze was certainly a gentlemen’s code of practice for these things, ever stayed out, but these early jumps stimulated the race. at the 1956 Olympics. which influenced what followed. Tom said to Rudi, ‘How shall we take the final sprint, cat and mouse?’ And Rudi’s response was, ‘No. You go one side, and I’ll go the other. The “Rudi’s response strongest man wins.’ Which is what happened.” was ‘No. You go one AS A PURE SPRINTER, THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT RUDI ALTIG IS BETTER THAN side, and I’ll go the TOM SIMPSON. BUT THE LASARTE CIRCUIT TIRED THE LEGS. TOM SIMPSON other. The strongest WAS TRULY THE STRONGEST. HIS FINAL SPRINT PROVED IT WITHOUT REASON man wins.’ Which is FOR DOUBT, AS RUDI HAD NOTHING LEFT. GEORGE TYSON Words what happened.” – Émile Besson reporting for Miroir Sprint, 6th September 1965

Three bike lengths separated Tom Simpson from Rudi Altig in the final sprint to the line. Tom apparently heard Rudi’s chain slip, and jumped at the opportunity, giving it THE everything he had. Not daring to look back, Tom knew he hadn’t been passed, and had become the champion of the world. Hoban was eventually picked up by the chasing group, and finished among the pack in 19th place, ahead of a young GREATEST Eddy Merckx. “Tom won Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, the Tour of ; he was even given the freedom of Sint- Amandsberg in , Belgium, where he lived,” explains Hoban. “But it was the Worlds that were considered to be BRITON the ultimate single-day race, and Tom won it. He really was the first British rider to put Britain on the map.” To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Tom Simpson’s world Fifty years ago, Tom Simpson showed PURE RACECRAFT Simpson was renowned for his tactical title, Rapha has produced a special edition Tom Simpson Jersey, typical guile to win the road world brilliance, often employing well- which takes its design cues from Simpson’s life and career as one of title, the first British male to do so. timed opportunism to win races. Britain’s most celebrated cyclists. Available to buy on rapha.cc RAPHA RICHMOND 09.24.15- 09.27.15

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