VARIETY PERFORMANCE

ne of the stars of the 2019 men’s WorldTour season was, undoubtedly, Lachlan Morton. What’s unusual, however, about this 28-year-old Australian is that his most celebrated rides didn’t happen on the roads of the Grand Tours or Spring Classics, but off road, in the British countryside. As the main player of his team EF Education First’s ‘alternative calendar’ of racing, which was inspired by the team’s clothing sponsor Rapha and its hope to tell compelling stories away from road racing, Morton rode in events such as Yorkshire’s famed cyclocross race, the 3 Peaks and brand new off-road Land’s End-John o’Groats bikepacking enduro, GBDURO. He starred in the resultant documentaries, highly entertaining films depicting not, as some feared when the calendar