John Wilcockson’s World of Cycling by John Wilcockson
John Wilcockson is the current editor of VeloNews and has been writing about cycling since the 1960’s. In John Wilcockson’s World of Cycling are 22 of the stories he has written over the years. Much like Off To the Races by Apt this is a great collection of stories by on of the best cycling reporters.
The book is presented as a year with 1-5 stories for each month from January until November. Really to make it complete they should have found something for December. January starts with a story about the 10th of Anniversary of Moser’s hour record in 1994, when he tried to set a new one. Moser failed in his attempt but still beat his 1984 distance, which was remarkable for a man over 40. The book then goes through race of the season including the 1970 Milan-San Remo, the ’84 Paris-Roubaix. He writes about Robert Millar’s heartbreaking loss in the ’85 Vuleta, and Andy Hampsten’s wonderful ’88 Giro. I questioned his decision to use the ’96 edition to represent the Tour de France, but that is more because there were better years. Also included are the ’84 Olympics, LeMonds win in the ’89 World Championship, and many other races.
The book was published in ’98 so that was before Lance took center stage in the Tour. It does document his win in the ’93 US Pro championship.
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