NATIONAL CHAMPION AND 1950s RACING PIONEER

This baker’s son achieved what every other hotblooded Stuttgart youngster could only dream of doing during West Germany’s post-war Economic Miracle: to race for Porsche and Mercedes-Benz. Herrmann was

By the mid-1960s there was little that Classics supremo Rik Van Looy hadn’t achieved in cycling. The Emperor of Herentals had been in the professional ranks for more than a decade and had enjoyed a re

When cycling’s your job, real-world skills remain frozen in time

THE ALPINE EXPRESS

Winner of two world endurance titles, a British superbike championship, multiple World Superbike races and plenty more besides...