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Azerbaijan On Two Wheels: Riding Around The World On A Punctured Tire | VICE Sports

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Mon, 07/27/2015 - 6:50am

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This is the first part of a five-part series detailing Patrick Redford's adventures with the Airgas-Safeway cycling team in the Tour of Azerbaijan. . . .

Halfway around the world and 12 time zones away, the Tour of California was about to start. This is the biggest race in the United States, with a field populated by former world champions and men who've won jerseys at the Tour De France. But America's most accomplished rider isn't there. Chris Horner has won nearly everything there is to win as a cyclist in the United States, and is the only American with a Grand Tour victory this century. He won California in 2011, but instead of preparing for the grand départ in Sacramento, he was there at the Kempinski Hotel Badamdar with me.

Horner is 43 and he currently races for the third-division Airgas-Safeway team, which arrived in Baku directly from New Mexico's arduous Tour of the Gila. After flying all night over continents, plural, everyone is exhausted and they all get horizontal as fast as possible. The race starts tomorrow, and rest is as valuable a commodity as food or water.

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