Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike

Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike

The first ever English-language biography of Eddy Merckx, the greatest cyclist of all time, by William Fotheringham, Britain's top cycling writer.

Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to box…

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