Being a Pro cyclist isn’t all top hotels, big team busses and 1st class travel, on the lower rungs of the professional cycle sport life is not so easy. Logan Loader is in Italy on the Continental team Amore & Vita, Ed Hood found out what life is like on the lower step.The Giro has begun, glamour, televised stages, World Tour teams – minimum wages. But it’s not like that for every pro bike rider; in soccer for every Real Madrid there are ten Cowdenbeath Football Clubs – a proud but far from high flying outfit in the lower reaches of the Scottish Leagues.And so it is with cycling – for every Ferrari driving Tom Boonen there are ten guys trying to step up from Continental to Pro Continental and ultimately, World Tour. Young American Logan Loader is one of them, far from home on the Amore & Vita squadra in Italia with no minimum wage safety net – it’s not a UCi requirement for a Continental team.We spotted his name as the author of two respectable rides recently; in the Tour de Finisterre and Tro Bro Leon – the latter on the farm tracks and dirt roads of Brittany. We thought we should have a word with the man. And before you say; “isn’t he that guy who.”Let’s get that out of the way first.First up Logan, lets get your brush with a proscribed substance in 2014 out of the way.Last season was a very difficult year for me,...
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