Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists

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I’ve heard one or two riders refer to the odd night out as ‘morale training’. It’s a good expression for it. It’s got the word ‘training’ in it, so it’s got to be a good idea.

Bicycles are the world’s greatest invention, objects of beauty, works of art, the tools of the trade. Most cyclists’ initial attraction to the sport has at least something to do with bikes themselves, and this is something that never leaves them.

I lived in a world where, one way or another, everything was divided into things that might make me faster and things that might make me slower. Pretty much anything pleasant fell into the second category.