L’Eroica Down Under
IT’S KNOWN AS THE HEROIC ERA OF CYCLING – a time of steel frames, downtube shifters, centre-pull brakes and hand-sewn tyres. What the riders lacked in long, loud socks they made up for with their immense quads. Those cotter-pinned cranks, big chainrings and small clusters were turned by good old brute force rather than the fast-spinning 28 and 32-tooth cassettes that prevail
