The classics

Experience the mythical one-day races from your armchair: Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the Amstel Gold Race... This book also provides a nice overview of earlier times, shows the beautiful landscapes that the cyclists have no eye for, and tells the epic of the greatest cycling heroes. With authentic images from the archives of L'Équipe
Each of these famous races has its own story, its own season, its own climate, its own landscape, its own light, its own contrasts, its own myths and its own ambiance. These are the classics, from the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix via Liège-Bastogne-Liège to the Amstel Gold Race and Bordeaux-Paris, with Milan-San Remo, 'La Classissima', as the opening and the Tour of Lombardy, 'La Più Bella', as the closing of the season. Year after year, the riders give it their all, spurred on by an unbridled crowd on a sizzling Muur van Geraardsbergen, an exuberant Tranchée d'Arenberg, a fateful Bois de Wallers, a delirious Cipressa, a plumed Via Roma, a seething Redoute or Muur van Huy, or a heat-stricken Jaizkibel. These mythical places, with their sometimes exceptional degree of difficulty, create the greatest champions or do honor to the nameless, see the triumphant or deathly exhausted riders come and go, sunburned or black with mud, in the glory or tragedy of the moment. Relive the long escapes, the mass sprints, the dramas, the heroic feats of yesterday and today. Old or modern, the classics are there forever. This book shows them in all their epic grandeur. With beautiful texts and photos, a true declaration of love.