VeloVeritas, Ed Hood, 15 April 2016
Posted by: Bitossi

Yes, we know, it’s still Classics Season – albeit veloVeritas’s resident soothsayer Viktor maintains the season finishes with Paris-Roubaix and everything thereafter is a ‘Glamour Race’ – but Rio will be upon us before we know it and we felt we had to record the retirement of a man who we’d expected to be a mainstay of the New Zealand team pursuit squad in Brazil but who has decided to bow out before the Olympics; Marc Ryan.

pezcyclingnews.com, Edmond Hood, 10 June 2009
Posted by: lucybears

Have you ever wondered where those fast riding pro team lead out men ‘just appear’ from? The answer is that they don’t ‘just appear,’ they pay their dues; but many come through via the team pursuit – DS’s like guys that can ride at 65 kph in the finale.