"Scenery is something you can't take in. It's always there but you never see it, and neither do you notice the countless thousands of spectators whom you must pass in the course of a race.... Always you're too tired, too hot, too demoralized, too thirsty. The limit of your world is between the leading and trailing riders, and always there's the road in front, winding, ascending, dropping away."

Ralph Hurne, The Yellow Jersey