Sean Kelly may have hung up his racing wheels many years ago but the Irish legend stays in great shape and still pounds the roads on the bike several times a week.
In this video with Global Cycling Network he goes back to the Poggio; the instrumental climb in this Saturday's Milan-Sanremo, a race that Kelly conquered twice in the 1980s and 1990s.
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The former World No 1 and 1988 Vuelta winner took his first victory in the event in 1986 when riding for Kas, beating Greg LeMond (La Vie Claire) and Mario Beccia (Malvor-Bottecchia) in a three-up sprint.
In 1992, Kelly (Lotus Festina) attacked after lone leader Moreno Argentin (Ariostea) and flew down the Poggio after him to produce TV footage that has become more iconic as the years pass. Kelly caught his Italian rival on the run in to the finish and then played a game of chicken; sticking Argentin on the front as the chasers closed and then sprinting in to win.
Kelly has now teamed up with GCN to go back to the Poggio with his aluminium Vitus 979 from the 1980s, in the precise spec he rode in 1986; with a Mavic SSC groupset, complete with six-speed block and weighing 8.8kg. GCN's Ollie rides that bike up and down the Poggio while Kelly is on the new carbon fibre Vitus Zenium.
