Cycling as it's portrayed these days seems to be a crash-a-minute supercalafragilistic colour-fest. But it wasn't always so. Once upon a time we saw in black and white.. at least the film cameras did. Here's a picture from that era of the 1965 Giro. The arrival up the Mortirolo had to cut through the snow that had fallen, and when the riders actually got to the top, the sides of the channel had collaped. This in and of itself is impressive, as is the figure of the rider trying to make it to the finish (won by Graziano Battistini).. What is even more impressive is that, despite the cold, despite the snow, the rider's jersey is unzipped! What an effort it must have been to climb up the mortirolo that not even walking through snow should prompt them to zip up their jersey. And Stephen Roche, you are against riders riding unzipped!? I tell you, cycling is strenuous work!
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