Jens Voigt likes it hard, sticky, nasty and uncomfortable
It’s not every day you get to meet a genuine cult hero (which is of course the best kind of hero). I interviewed Jens Voigt last week. The headline above was one revelation that somehow…
Jens Voigt’s legs had one last thing to say
One of the many, many Jens Voigt jokes out there is that he can beat the hour record in under 60 minutes. It doesn’t quite work, because of course anyone who breaks the hour record…
Mark Cavendish and his oddly bouncy skeleton
The people of Yorkshire followed the script, lining the route like yellow human fencing. Jens Voight followed the script, getting into the day’s break, despite being 42 and there being little chance of success. He’s…
The corrupted logic of the breakaway rider
Jens Voigt got in the break on stage three of the Tour Down Under. “I picked today’s stage to break away because nobody else did, but I knew that it was close to impossible to…