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Il Lombardia, rider protests and a peloton running out of patience. This week, Gary, David and Chris ask what the CPA can actually do about race safety, why Britain keeps skipping the European road championships, and whether American cycling is properly back. Plus, Tom Simpson, Barry Hoban and the forgotten prestige of Paris–Tours.

📸 At Paris-Tours in 1967, Barry Hoban (L) had Rik Van Looy’s wheel - but the Belgian’s guile turned the tables. Van Looy stopped pedalling, daring Barry to chase the riders ahead. Barry blinked first, taking him back to the front, then made the mistake that decided the sprint:

“Then I waited,” he wrote in his autobiography, Vas-y-Barry. “I waited for Rik Van Looy to jump, and that was fatal.

“I came back at Van Looy all the way up the finishing straight. Then we flashed over the line and I was still half a wheel short. Fifteen metres more and I might have got him.

“I never sprinted like that again, never left it late – never let anyone take the initiative.”

A painful second place - and a lesson that changed how Barry sprinted forever. From Vas-y Barry, published by Cycling Legends. (Cycling Legends Collection)

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