Since the birth of PelotonTales blog I tend to write about stories from the past of road cycling races related to famous and popular black&white vintage cycling images. For the visitors of the blog it might seem naturally, since most posts are about stories from the first half of the 20th century, especially a few years before and after World War I. By creating content around old black&white images I appeal on the feeling of indirect nostalgia, the desire of being connected to the past we never experienced in the flesh, only have indirect knowledge about.
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Working with the storytelling genre of historical fiction, I'm looking into the deep-deep well of past day by day. Although I'm very much a person of the 21st century, I like living in our era, intellectually I'm living in the time period between 15th and 18th century, because the fictional stories set in these times I find the most intiguing. But i'm aware, that many people don't like to look back further than only a few decades, and when they talk about history or historical times, predominantly they think of the events in the middle or in the 2nd half of the 20th century.
It's the same, or at least very similar, with the past of road cycling. When they hear or read the phrase "road cycling history" somewhere, they immediately think of the last 2 or 3 decades of the 20th century. (Or even the first couple of years of the 21st century.) I understand that many people like to look back only on the time period they are familiar with on a certain level.
As I mentioned, PelotonTales is mostly about the road cycling events and stories and great characters from the first half of the century. But it does not mean, that there isn't any content from the latest history of road cycling on this blog.
So for a week (or maybe two) PelotonTales will pay a bit more attention to the "era in colour" of road cycling races.