Video – Annemiek van Vleuten: This Rider

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By Emlyn Lewis 0
By Granada - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73054174

There is something irresistible about Ammiek van Vleuten, by which I mean, there are top riders and top teams working very hard to keep her from winning things, but she keeps on winning things regardless, the Giro Donne, the Tour de France Femmes, World Championships, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Tour of Flanders, Strade Bianchi.

She’s really good at bikes.

With retirement looming, let’s take a minute to appreciate this other-worldly athlete, elegant rider, and positive voice in the pro peloton.

Emlyn Lewis

Robot fell in love with cycling watching the older neighborhood kids ride wheelies down the street. It was the early '70s, and Evel Knievel was jumping motorcycles over buses. Everything seemed possible. From that moment, the die was cast (iacta alia est).

He studied philosophy in college, of course he did. That's what idealists do, romantics, kids who think there must be a better way. At the same time, bikes were carrying him everywhere, delivering all of life's gifts and surprises. Occasionally he crashed and didn't mind.

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