130 years of cycling - the stories behind our archive photography

Cycling Weekly's heritage range of products includes posters taken from the black and white photography archive that spans decades of racing and riding.

A lone rider struggles up an impossibly steep looking climb as five spectators watch his suffering. His race number and the car following him clearly show to everyone that this picture comes from the Milk Race. And you can just make out WALES written on the back of the jersey. The envelope the picture is stored in simply says 'Milk Race 1960'. We have no more details than that with which to write our From the Archive page

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