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A small selection of published stories

September 02, 2013

The future is orange?

September 02, 2013/ steve thomas
The future is orange?

Sammy Sanchez

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September 02, 2013/ steve thomas/
August 13, 2013

Seat of your pants photography

August 13, 2013/ steve thomas
Seat of your pants photography

Life as a race photographer in Asia...

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August 13, 2013/ steve thomas/
July 22, 2013

The Curse of the Climbers

July 22, 2013/ steve thomas
The Curse of the Climbers

Chilling and sad legendary falls from the mountain

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July 22, 2013/ steve thomas/
July 12, 2013

The Old Man and the Road

July 12, 2013/ steve thomas
The Old Man and the Road

Jens Voigt and fighting talk

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July 03, 2013

Simply Simon Gerrans

July 03, 2013/ steve thomas
Simply Simon Gerrans

Time travelling back to 2008 and a week with Simon Gerrans

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July 03, 2013/ steve thomas/
June 25, 2013

Mavic Moments

June 25, 2013/ steve thomas
Mavic Moments

Rolling with the iconic French brand

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June 25, 2013/ steve thomas/
June 11, 2013

Hope & Glory

June 11, 2013/ steve thomas
Hope & Glory

The great Brit brand

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June 11, 2013/ steve thomas/
April 25, 2013

Trail of Death

April 25, 2013/ steve thomas
Trail of Death

​Following the death march trails of Borneo

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April 25, 2013/ steve thomas/
March 18, 2013

Three Princes

March 18, 2013/ steve thomas
Three Princes

​An interview with Mark Cavendish, Geraint Thomas and Ian Stannard

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March 18, 2013/ steve thomas/
January 13, 2013

French Lessons

January 13, 2013/ steve thomas
French Lessons

With 15 seconds to go I jumped commando style from the chopper and legged it across the field to my bike and made it two full seconds before the big off.

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January 13, 2013

Celeste

January 13, 2013/ steve thomas
Celeste

As romantic as the history of Bianchi it’s self is the legend of the Celeste colour; it is believed that after making a custom bicycle for, and teaching her to ride it, that Edoardo became so enchanted with the Celeste

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January 13, 2013

The Escape Artisrt

January 13, 2013/ steve thomas
The Escape Artisrt

Italian star Salvatore Commesso is a virtual maestro, and is renown as one of the most aggressive and attacking riders in the pro peleton, which is why we tracked him down

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January 13, 2013

Irish Eyes

January 13, 2013/ steve thomas
Irish Eyes

Kelly was known as a true grit hard man, one of the most intuitive and gnarliest riders the sport has ever seen. It was said that the tougher the weather and the conditions the more he relished the fight

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January 13, 2013/ steve thomas/
January 13, 2013

666

January 13, 2013/ steve thomas
666

I’d been to all kinds of bike races (Even at such a tender age), yet this was something else. I’d never seen anything quite like this, it was surreal, mesmerising and fascinating.

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January 13, 2013

Froome 101

January 13, 2013/ steve thomas
Froome 101

Right until the bitter end was splattered above Wiggins name on the cruelly steep slopes of the Angliru

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January 13, 2013

The Power of 3

January 13, 2013/ steve thomas
The Power of 3

Several “just one mores” later and I turned to see a young French lady at the bar next to me. She was friendly, but as mad as French cheese

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January 13, 2013/ steve thomas/
January 13, 2013

Kinabalu Legs

January 13, 2013/ steve thomas
Kinabalu Legs

My knees and legs had completely gone; I was literally in tears, and was reduced to walking sideways, and using my butt to get down the final two hours. I really did not think I would make it.

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January 13, 2013

El Chorro Loco

January 13, 2013/ steve thomas
El Chorro Loco

This really was a decaying old concrete and rusty iron 18” wide path, vaguely pinned to the side of a Grand Canyon style gorge. And not only was it severely lacking in railings, it had great big gaping holes in it too, like, people size, big people size.

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January 13, 2013

Veleta or Bust

January 13, 2013/ steve thomas
Veleta or Bust

We stumbled across a mountain refuge, a god forsaken stone shelter without light, water, or anything for that matter. I’d resigned myself to spending the night there, hoping that the storm would have passed by morning and that we would have a better chance of continuing the descent.

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January 13, 2013/ steve thomas/
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