J. B. Wadley's career as a cycling journalist spanned more than 40 years and encompassed every aspect of the sport. He was he first British writer to cover the Tour de France and the great one-day Classics. This selection of his work is drawn from his early days as a young reporter with The Bicycle, to his last major book, My 19th Tour de France.
J. B. Wadley's career as a cycling journalist spanned more than 40 years and encompassed every aspect of the sport. The first British writer to cover the Tour de France and the great one-day Classics, his were the words that first put us in among the continental peloton. But he was equally at home among crack-of-dawn time-trialists, trackmen, randonneurs and record-breakers. His enthusiasm embraced them all, and he wrote about each aspect of cycle sport with an authority and an inimitable eye-witness style that never failed to convey its particular drama. All of this is reflected in this selection of his work, drawn from his early days as a young reporter with The Bicycle, through the years when he edited Sporting Cyclist and then International Cycle Sport, to his last major book, My 19th Tour de France.