Got a late Christmas present in the post today, Vélo, a book written by Paul Fournel, illustrated by Jo Burt (of Mint Sauce fame), published by the folk behind Rouleur (Rapha basically). It is, naturally, beautiful.
Anyway, there was a paragraph about velodromes that I thought was somewhat interesting in relation to Edinburgh...
"Saint-Étienne was one of the rare cities to have one, but it was so dilapidated and so dangerous it was torn down. My adolescent years passed to a rhythm of the progressive forgetting of the promise to build another one. Now nobody even thinks about it."
Did I mention the book is beautiful?
posts
