PEZ Roadside St.21: It’s the end of the Giro d’Italia road for the riders and for Ed and Martin. The adventurous pair were in amongst everything in Milano, roadside, backstage, at the busses and as near the finish line and podium as they could get. It’s the last day of school in Milan.“Iljo winning, Kiss playing… You’re not working, man! You’re on holiday!”That text from PezAmigo, Ian Whitehead in Gent was how we learned that the man who’s name emblazons a thousand scarves in the Kuipke Velodrome every November at the Six Days of Gent had landed the biggest win of his career.PEZ was there when he won his first six day race in Grenoble a decade ago and we were there when he won his first Gent Six Day, later that same winter.And were here now for the biggest win of his life maybe were lucky for him?We were speaking to his dad Ronnie, just before the tappa; none of us knew the day would go the way of the Belgian track flyer but it did!But lets start at the beginning. . .In Verbania the hotel was amazing; from another more refined time whilst in Cervinia the digs were pure ski bum.But in Sestriere it was the old Olympic Village which came straight out of a James Bond movie – Sagan would be the hero;“you expect me to wheelie, Oleg?” “No! I expect you to win, Mr. Sagan!”And on the subject of winning; If you’re a sprinter then your...
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