Joe Papp

Joe Papp is a UCI Elite rider with the UPMC cycling team. He was a double stage winner at the 2003 Vuelta a Cuba (UCI 2.5) and has finished in the top-10 three times at the UCI Pan American Continental Championships (2005, 2004, 1996). Joe's writing is good enough to make boring races intriguing and intriguing races captivating.

Latest articles by Joe Papp

The author Joe Papp on the attack during the GF Max Lelli. He would win the KOM

Ignominious End

By Joe Papp Published

With one kilometre to go in my last European race of the season, after bridging back up to a...

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Isn't it beautiful?

Talking Turkey: Part I

By Joe Papp Published

Greetings Cyclingnews readers! I hope you all are well and, like me, are living your dreams out on...

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G.F. Città di Ceriale

By Joe Papp Published

Cazzo de la Madonna ! I'm not ashamed to admit that was what I said to myself, albeit in Spanish, as...

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The casita in Cuba in which the author stayed during his final preparation for the Vuelta a Cuba.

Vuelta a Cuba and Italy

By Joe Papp Published

When Erik Zabel was beaten - or better said, when he "lost" - Milan-San Remo to Oscar Freire, I...

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Joe Papp with the island of Hong Kong in the background before the start of stage 1 of the Tour of the South China Sea

The South China Sea experience - Part I ()

By Joe Papp Published

Greetings cyclingnews.com readers! When last I wrote, I was flying at 30,000 ft. somewhere over...

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Joe Papp sports the Velo Pasadena kit

Flying high

By Joe Papp Published

Greetings Cyclingnews readers! Having just crossed the International Date Line, I'm writing this...

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Joe and Yuliet, biking just for fun after a long, long season. Joe sports the colors of his Italian team, Partizan-Whistle.

Doing a few new things

By Joe Papp Published

I actually had to skip my morning training session today to start work on this diary, so tired have...

Cycling Culture
Joe Papp,

Riding the rollercoaster

By Joe Papp Published

Not having had the inspiration to write a diary entry for Cyclingnews for so many months has left me...

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Digging deep on a lonely road

A Cuban Odyssey

By Joe Papp Published

Henri Charrière, called Papillon, for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in...

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Not dead yet

By Joe Papp Published

From Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) The Dead Collector: "Bring out yer dead." [a man puts a...

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