Book "Wide-eyed and legless - Inside the Tour de France" by Jeff Connor

Written by Jeff Connor, a tabloid journalist who was embedded with the underfunded and chaotic ANC-Halfords team (the first British professional team to enter the Tour in 20 years), the book gives a candid, fly-on-the-wall account of the legendary 1987 cycling season.
 
The excerpt captures the tense, exhausting prelude to Stephen Roche’s historical Triple Crown of Cycling (winning the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France, and the World Road Race Championship all in the single year of 1987)—a feat accomplished by only one other male cyclist in history, Eddy Merckx.