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The Hardmen: Legends of the Cycling Gods

It`s time we all stopped whining and learned a thing or two from the toughest cyclists ever.Stephen Roche, whose cure for exhaustion was to go up a gear and fight harder, all the way to the ambulance. Eddy Merckx, who hurt himself so badly in breaking the Hour record that, he estimated, he shortened his career by a year. Beryl Burton, who crushed her (male) rival`s morale with the offer of a piece of liquorice, before speeding past to victory. Nicole Cooke and Edwig Van Hooydonck, who rejected dope and became legends.`The Hardmen` tells the stories – the good bits, anyway – of the 40 most heroic Cyclists ever. Their bravery, their panache and their perfect amount of dumb.It reminds us that suffering on a bike liberates us from our daily lives, and that, in the words of Lance Armstrong “pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever”; proof that even assholes can be insightful.

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