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Brian Robinson was the first Briton ever to ride and finish the
Tour de France. That was back in 1955 when, for just one year,
Hercules sponsored a British team. At a time when professional
cycle racing on the roads was virtually unknown in this country,
Robinson went off to the Continent, without a contract, without the
security of being part of an established team, to make a career for
himself in what is now generally regarded as having been one of the
toughest eras in a very tough sport. He proved himself to be not
only a fine rider, able to adapt to the continental style of racing
and the taxing demands of a long season with clear-headed tenacity,
but equally as important for his ambition, capable of adapting to
French life and the culture of the peloton. Almost invariably in
any race, he was the lone coureur anglais. In 1958, with a growing
list of successes in important one-day races and in the Tours of
Spain and France he became the first Briton to win a stage of the
great French race. He followed that up the following year by
winning a second Tour stage, this time by the extraordinary margin
of 20 minutes. He had already become the first from this side of
the Channel to stand on the podium of one of cycling's great
Classics - third in the Milan-San Remo. And in his final full year
he took first place in the famous one-week race through the Alps,
the Dauphine Libere. He was, without dispute, the great pioneer. It
is difficult to overstate the debt that is owed to him by the
British riders who have followed in his tracks over the last half
century. So it is only fitting that he should have played so
important a part in bringing the Tour to Britain in 2014, and to
his native Yorkshire. The book was first published as a hardback
edition in 2010.
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