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
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 […]
Hope, Lotus, and the cult of relentless
Check out the new Hope Lotus track bike, the marketing blurb implores us. Futuristic, wind tunnel tested, revolutionary, radical, cutting edge, blah blah. Created to deliver a shed load of GB cycling […]
Rohan Dennis is so off brand he’s on a different brand
“F*****g SRAM,” yelled Bauke Mollema, midway through the 2019 Giro d’Italia, as his SRAM equipped bike failed to comply with a simple gear change. Not the strong brand message SRAM are looking […]
Vuelta Espana 2019 Stage 10: Primoz Roglic and the case of the missing personality
We’ve been here before with Primoz Roglic. On the road to San Marino, in the Giro d’Italia, to be precise. A dominant time-trial, rivals flailing in his wake, and the massed ranks […]
The Vuelta Espana desperate-o-meter: a team by team guide
To quote former pro cyclist Charly Wegelius (in his excellent book, Domestique), the Vuelta Espana resembles “the crew of a pirate ship…either riders didn’t want to be there or were desperate to […]
Pro Cycling v Premier League
Just imagine, for a moment, that you’re a football fan. That the Premier League is your idea of sporting drama. You get your kicks each week watching a couple of dozen fabulously […]
