Tag: Turns

PEZ Turns 20: Darrell’s TOC’08 Photog’s View

The final installment of our Tour of California coverage comes from photographer Darrell Parks, who took many of the images that so vividly captured the racing here on PEZ. I asked Darrell for a few of his favorite pics, and his memories from the week My affiliation with PEZ Cycling News began back in 2005 after submitting a few images from that year’s Tour de Georgia.My first race image submitted to Pez to kick start my foray into cycling photography! Gord Fraser on his way to taking Stage 6 of the 2005 Tour de GeorgiaFast forward to the year 2008 and I had been providing race images to Pez for a few years now. The images would end up in…

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PEZ Turns 20: L’Eroica PEZ Rides With the Heroes

In early October 2011, PEZs own literary specialist Les Reissner joined some 3000 others riders for an epic day pedaling the ribbons of strade bianche across the hills of Toscana in the ride known simply as lEroica a true ride back in time. Heres how he spent 10 hours and 27 minutes from start to finish.I am not one of the original writers for PezCyclingNews, having joined on in (I think) 2007 but I suspect Literary Editor I have reviewed more cycling books in in the last fifteen years than anyone else! And as entertaining as those books have been, Pez has given me the opportunity to get out of the library as I rode in the Astana team car…

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PEZ Turns 20: Chuck’s WORLDS’15 Weekend!

I’m sort of the new kid on the block, having become a contributor to PEZ in 2015. But I’d been a longtime reader and my connection to PEZ started the year before when my (and my RAAM teammate, Sam Bishop’s) #steelisreal Hollands was featured in Readers’ Rigs. And the PEZ crew is so close knit that it feels like I’ve been here forever.This is the second piece I penned for PEZ (the first being my ride of the Richmond 2015 Worlds course). And it was my first time back to a pro race since the 90s — when I went to the Tour de France on a Breaking Away tour with my wife, was at every edition of the Tour…

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