And so the Tour Down Under drifts by for another year. For most of us, here in the UK, it’s trimmed down to six two-minute YouTube clips. Each digested stage comprising a […]
Richie Porte: the Macbeth of pro cycling
Tour Down Under 2020: Sam Bennett has all the time in the world
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: when pie-eating’s loss became pro-cycling’s gain
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 […]
Farewell Handsome Bernie, it’s been emotional
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, […]
Pro cycling 2020: new season, same old blah-de-blah
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 […]
Cycling in 2020: forget 24/7, it’s the year of the 28/10 lifestyle
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 […]
Pro cycling perspective and the lure of retirement
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 Ineos and the price of fun
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 […]
I bonk. Do you bonk?
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 […]
