Peter Post, here with German rider Didi Thurau, was the tough-guy manager of legendary teams TI-Raleigh and Panasonic. Dutch, a great rider he worked incredibly hard and expected the same from everyone, but his methods bordered on bullying. One rider and later a manager Theo de

The 2025 Vuelta a Espana has been a fantastic race, although it has been dogged by demonstrations, but passions and beliefs boiling over are nothing new in cycling. One of the most fractious incidents happened not long after the Second World War in the 1950 Tour de France on the

It’s 1971 and Brian Jolly has just won the fourth edition of the Tom Simpson Memorial Race in Harworth, North Nottinghamshire. He’s receiving the trophy from Tom’s father, who was also Tom Simpson. The man in the middle is Gerald O’Donovan who ran Carlton Cycles of Worksop with

Thierry Claveyrolat was Tour de France king of the mountains in 1990. He was born in La Tronche, an area of Grenoble, gateway to the Alps. So he grew up surrounded by high peaks. When he started racing he found he was made for them. He became a professional in 1983 but for a

Tom Simpson Retro Weekend, Harworth, full house Saturday afternoon. Thank you all so much for coming and making it a brilliant event ❤️

an amazing event! Chapeau, Chris Sidwells !

Marcel Kint, the serious looking rider with his arms folded on the right of this 1939 photo, was a Belgian cyclist known to fans as the Black Eagle. Like many of his compatriots he was a single day race specialist, and although he won Paris-Roubaix and Ghent-Wevelgem he loved the

Cycling Legends Media I love these old photos. So evocative of a bygone age of cycling.

Rik Van Steenbergen of Belgium, seen here in the 1958 Tour of Flanders, and Fausto Coppi were the chalk and cheese of 1950s cycling. While Coppi’s legs coaxed the pedals around, powered by some invisible force; Van Steenbergen’s power was obvious and brutal. Van Steenbergen

This is Jenny Merckx, Eddy’s mum and a force of nature. In 1964 Eddy was dropped from the Belgian Olympic squad, so Jenny went to bat for him. The selectors didn’t know what hit them! There was supposed to be an irregularity on Eddy’s electro-cardiogram. The Merckx family doctor

This is Maurizio Fondriest of Italy winning the 1988 men’s pro road race world championships in Ronse, Belgium. One of the most contentious finishes in cycling’s history, and certainly the most litigious. You can see the Canadian 2nd place finisher Steve Bauer’s left arm behind

A 15-year-old Bradley Wiggins receiving his first national trophy for the youths’ points race title in 1995 from Sean Yates. Who would have guessed that years later they would share destiny when Brad became the first British Tour de France winner, and Sean would be his DS?

The photos for Simpson Retro 2025 are now ready to view and purchase! Just click this link here - cyclinglegends.photodeck.com/-/galleries/si… They are split into Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You can search for your photos by either uploading a selfie, or clicking on a photo of you and clicking the

Today’s photo is from the days when pro riders travelled to races in suits. This is the ever-immaculate 5-time Tour de France winner Jacques Anquetil being introduced to the crowd at the curtain raiser for the 1967 Amsterdam six-day race. We thought it’s a good picture to post

Marc Madiot is pure passion. He brings it to his work as a DS today and he brought it to his life as a pro cyclist. Passion fuels him, it’s what his teams run on. It’s not something others would, or maybe even should, try to emulate, but for him and for his team’s passion works.

We posted something earlier this week about Marino Basso sprinting past his Italian team-mate, Franco Bitossi in the final metres of the 1972 men’s pro road race world championships. Most of you agreed Basso did the right thing, rivals were catching Bitossi and if Basso hadn’t

It’s 1987 and Stephen Roche of Ireland has just done what only Eddy Merckx had done before, and only Tadej Pogacar since; he’s won the men’s pro road race world title after winning the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year. This is how he did it. Eddy Merckx said the

This was peak Tom Simpson. Winning the Tour of Flanders at 23 in his first attempt was incredible. Following it with the Tour de France yellow jersey, Bordeaux-Paris and Milan-San Remo was unprecedented. He’s still the only British male to have won more than one monument. In

In 1937 Charles Holland was one of the first two British cyclists to race the Tour de France. Neither finished, but Holland got the furthest. He was a successful amateur who turned professional in 1937 intending to ride six-day races. To do that he needed experience racing on

Phil Anderson of Australia was a fearsome natural talent. He could have excelled at any sport, but he chose cycling, and when he did he was winning from the beginning. He was the rider other Aussies measured themselves against. After he won the 1978 Commonwealth Games Road Race