Roadworks Co.

Everything cycling, London.

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Fallowfield track, Easter 1964. What a beautiful photo.

📷 Roy Green

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I never get tired of this shot (📷 Bernard Thompson)

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The Stelvio in 1915 - switchbacks for km’s, but still the familiar pattern across the mountain.

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Fantastic shot from Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix. 📷 Pauline Ballet

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Bike Jerks just did a photoshoot of the 1993 Bridgestone X0-1 on which Gene Oberpriller won the Chequagemon MTB race that year. If you don’t recognize the rider on the foreground, his initials are on the headtube … that picture was probably shot in 91 or 92, and Gene is looking at him with an epic facial expression, with all the early 90s classical stuff mtb riders had back in the day … priceless! (source)

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This is just amazing. GL putting them all in the cave without so much as a grimace

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The Rough-Stuff Fellowship were doing off road touring long before it became fashionable and the club is being celebrated with an upcoming book. The crowdfunding campaign for the book ends this Sunday so if you want a piece of this cycling history, get in quick.

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I just supported the printing of The Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive book on Kickstarter, more info about this stunning project here

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Paris Roubaix became known as the Hell of the North (L’Enfer du Nord) after the 1919 race passed through the hellish post-war landscape of Northern France.

In fact, that year’s winner, Henri Pelissier, said it was a pilgrimage, not a race.

Graham Healy’s The Shattered Peloton recounts the War’s impact on the Tour de France and its riders.

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Incredible set of photos from the Vuelta del Uruguay, from the 1940s. Looks like a multi-stage cyclocross extravaganza!!

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Such a great photo.

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World Championships, Goodwood, England, August and September 1982.

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Federico Bahamontes, the Eagle of Toledo, in 1957.

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He looks totally spent 💪

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Paris-Tours, 1921, only eight riders made it to the finish, with Francis Pélissier winning. cyclinglegends.co.uk just wrote a lovely article about the sprinters’ classic here … it’s a must-read!

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Giro d'Italia, 1956. Fiorenzo Magni, riding with a broken collarbone after a crash on stage 12, tied a piece of inner tube to his bars and gripped it between his teeth to help steady the bike.

He wasn’t steady enough to avoid another crash on stage 16, in which he landed on the broken collarbone and also broke his arm.

Nonetheless, Magni completed the remaining six stages and finished second overall.

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The Dulux 6-Day peloton passes under an overbridge on the Old Hutt Road in the late ‘70s.

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Marianne Martin (USA), winner of the inaugural Tour Feminin in 1984.