The Grand Tour Diaries 2018: OUT NOW!
Available in paperback and Kindle e-book: click here to buy now Every stage of the 2018 editions of the GiroContinue Reading
Category: pro cycling
We need to talk about Gaviria
Were I asked, here at the start of 2019, to pick a bike rider to sprint for my life, IContinue Reading
The first rule of nicknames (with Philippe “The Crush-o-tron” Gilbert)
The first rule of nicknames is: you don’t get to give yourself a nickname. As a schoolboy, left to negotiate theContinue Reading
Cycling needs to ban these things!
The latest iteration of Oakley Jawbreakers, for example. To wear them here in the UK requires planning permission. You are a cyclist; you are not Boba Fett from Star Wars.
A shivering Brit craving sunshine
The north of England, I can confirm, is damp and cold at this point in January. My first reaction to the sight the pro peloton limbering up for, and then racing in, the Tour Down Under, clad in shorts and summer jerseys, is one of seething envy.
