The unique place of the 1920s in road cycling history

The two world wars during the first half of the 20th century serve a natural watershed in the history of road cycling. Therefore the two decades between these two events (nonetheless, there are some opinion out there, that the two wars were basically one big conflict, the second part comes from the unfinished businesses of the first one) seem naturally parts of the same category for the first, superficial glimpse.

There is a new version of this essay on the new version of Anita Petho’s Road Cycling History.

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Whimsical and individualistic – the uniqueness of the 1920s in the history of road cycling.