This book includes Mockridge's first hand accounts of his ride in the 1955 Tour de France as part of the Luxembourg Team and 16 pages of rare photos plus other memorabilia.

In September 1958, only minutes into a professional road race, Australia’s best cyclist, Russell Mockridge, was dead, his head and body crushed under the wheels of a bus. The death of the dual Olympic Gold medallist and Tour de France competitor sent shockwaves through the cycling world. Mockridge was 30 when he died and planning a new assault on European professional racing.

On the 50th anniversary of his death, Melbourne journalist Martin Curtis revisits the life and death of Russell Mockridge. He finds a literate, urbane, but shy man, an outsider in the rough and tumble world of professional cycling; an elite sportsman who Percy Cerrutty described as one of the greatest athletes of his time. He also investigates passionately held family views that the death was not properly investigated.
Paperback, 201 pages,235mm x 155mm,BW illus.,Curtis,Martin