Skippy’s Motorola Days
With his career heading towards its twilight, our favourite Aussie powerhouse looks for a new challenge and heads to the fledgling American Motorola team where his focus turns away from GC aspirations at the Tour and more towards the Spring Classics, where he was always a major stud with some big wins in the one-dayers and on the cobbles.
And fuck me if it isn’t just the mountain bike legend that is Johnny T on the Classics roster! Could he have been a Paris-Roubaix winner if he hadn’t pulled the plug on his road career? Other legends on the roster include Andy Hampsten, Bob Roll, Steve Bauer and those drool-inducing Eddy Merckx steel frames, punished to within an inch of their lives as the big hitters grind them up the bergs in the 39/23 like real men. Notable in his absence is one Lance Armstrong who joined the squad the next season, won the Worlds the year after that, got cancer and became a twat.