The man, the bike, the road… the misery.
If you’ve never followed continental cycling this picture probably won’t have much appeal. If you have, in a way it’s got nearly everything – including the classic Peugeot jersey as worn, of course, by Tom Simpson a couple of decades before.
Long-time cycling photographer Graham Watson recently re-posted this picture of Sean Yates taken in 1983. Yates did have lots of better times, casual readers will be pleased to know; here’s one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQYJydVy_wM
In the video you will note that crash hats are still optional. Happy days…
PS: Graham Watson is at http://www.grahamwatson.com/
Misery personified.
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