Tag: Merckx

As someone who has a bookshelf groaning with volumes dedicated to a certain now-non-Tour de France-winning Texan and even three autobiographies of Mark Cavendish, it has always seemed odd to me that books dedicated to the Greatest Cyclist of the 20th Century, according to the UCI, are fairly scarce in English, or pretty much any other language. There is an old joke that the only famous Belgians anyone can name are Hercule Poirot and Tintin and both are fictitious. However, not only has Belgium produced celebrated cyclists (and, of course, many notable people in other fields) but it has given us the best one of all: douard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx. Merckx 525 is a particularly good book published by…