Stage 17 didn’t so much follow a script, as follow several scrips, each one torn up and cast to the winds to be replaced by a new act. Attack followed attack, and break followed break, until the closing stages when everyone decided to settle in for a sprint finish.
The climb to Montevergine di Mercogliano, and a summit finish, was a slow burner. A long climb, with a shallow gradient. For much of it, all was quiet. The Pink Jersey and […]
Occasionally, when the weather is really coming down here in the north of England, it amuses me to wonder which of my cycling friends are out in it. I text them, and if […]
Around these parts cyclists are ten-a-penny; most of the time we simply blend into the background. Occasionally, however, we end up sticking out like sore thumbs. I’m not talking about those of […]
Winnats bib-tights by Rivelo – £130. What we cyclists wear on our bottom half is arguably more important that our top half. In terms of comfort, certainly, the quality of your bib-tights […]
At the risk of offending apocalypses everywhere, the scene that I woke up to on a December Sunday morning recently was, well…apocalyptic. Ok, so there was no radioactive contamination, no zombies, and […]
“Start as you mean to go on..,” they say. “First impressions last..,” the received wisdom points out. “Is it just me, or are you becoming a bit of a soft fair-weather cyclist..?” […]
In late spring/early summer here in the UK, the weather can be a fickle beast; 25 degree sunshine and sunny blue skies one day, 11 degrees and sideways rain the next. But […]
From time to time we all do things we aren’t proud of, and sometimes the only thing to do is to reflect on the error of your ways, and make sure that […]
