I’m thinking of starting a new Twitter feed. It’s going to be called: @hastheGirogotboringyet?…
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Usually, blogs are relatively easy to write. This one isn’t, reflected in the fact it’s taken two weeks to pluck up the courage…
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Back in the day I always had a soft spot for the Three Days of De Panne. Not because I’d had any particularly memorable experiences there…
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Historical echoes matter across all sport. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that they are one of the foundations of sport…
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From a bike racing perspective, Covid-19 messed up the seasons good and proper in 2020, which meant that the first sighting…
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Over the years, I’ve rarely found time trials exciting to watch, so it’s always good to find new ways of looking at them…
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It’s February, and last week was that slightly bonkers point in the year when you suddenly go from basically zero road racing, to too much to take…
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It’s not good to start the New Year with an obituary, but here we go: Rest In Peace procycling magazine…
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Tuning in to watch Alex Dowsett’s Hour Record attempt last night was the opposite of déjà vu…
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Seven and a half years pass quickly. It was Wednesday May 7 2014 when I wandered around the back streets of Oundle…
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Well, it’s been quite the wait. And I’m not just talking about the fact that it’s been two and a half years since there was a Paris-Roubaix…
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Autumn is here, the nights are getting longer and our review of the year is back!
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Primoz Roglic and the hat-trick… It’s the big stat of this Vuelta: Roglic equals…
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Suddenly, there is a touch of autumn in the air. The Vuelta is all but over…
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In the mid-1990s, riders who wanted to be in the winning break on a hilly stage of the Tour de France or Giro d’Italia had a fairly simple option…
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The good, in order of obvious goodness…
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A is for Age.
He’s 36. Most sprinters are in carpet slippers by this stage… -
Tour de France
The Tour is a risky business in 2021, but unfortunately that’s history repeating itself
The refrain is one I have heard every July since I first worked on the Tour de France back in 1990. The Tour, it’s always said, is getting more dangerous every year…
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It’s that time of year again, when we rush headlong from the Giro d’Italia to the Tour de France via a dizzying whirl of minor stage races…
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You could sum up the 2021 Giro d’Italia in various ways: I will point to two truly sublime episodes…
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