There are times in my life when I achieve total control. Absolute mastery of my situation. Time appears to slow down, my decision making is crisp and accurate, and the achievement of […]
Matt Holmes comes from Wigan, in the north of England. Just down the way from road|THEORY HQ. After several seasons at Continental level with Madison Genesis he’s landed a massive promotion to […]
He was known as ‘Handsome Bernie’ in these parts. Putting the o man! in bromance. His retirement announcement this week causing men, women, children, animals, the length and breadth of the continent, […]
Well done. A new pro cycling season is upon us, which means you have negotiated another barren period between the racing of bikes. As usual, the cycling media has been scrambling around […]
The new (2020) pro cycling season is nearly upon us. I know this because social media is chock full of riders who’ve signed for new teams being forced (in adherence to an […]
2019 was the year of the early retirement. First it was Marcel Kittel. Aged 31, the gloriously coiffured German was not happy. His form, known to swing wildly between totally unbeatable and […]
Team Sky used to be fun. Not fun in the classic sense – the spreadsheets and general relentlessness made sure of that – but in a we’ve-only-just-been-invented-and-now-we’re-going-to-win-le-Tour kind of way. They were […]
Technology, eh? What a bastard. Marching relentlessly forward without so much as a hey there, humanity, do you actually want machine learning to take over your lives? Safe in the knowledge we’re […]
It’s gone too far. Back in 2012 ‘marginal gains’ was a bit of fun. A harmless dimply skinsuit here, a weird wobbly set of front forks there, but we’ve reached a tipping […]
