My first iconic mountain climb on a bike was the Col d’Aspin mountain pass, a legendary Tour de France ascent in the French Pyrenees.
In the mid-1980s, I found myself on the rainy start line as part of the composite British team that raced at the Tour de France, one of the greatest annual sports shows on earth.
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