Tour Threads – Garmin, Cervelo.

Yesterday, at the Tour team presentation ( and technically a couple of hours previously for detail sticklers) Garmin-Sharp unveiled their new jersey, giving the team an impressive run of having managed a somewhat ridiculous four kits in the past two years, and that figure increases to eight in three if we include the amalgamated Cervelo...

Tour Threads – T-Mobile/HTC, Quickstep

Here's the last one till thursday, when Garmin-Sharp will get their jersey unveiled and we can track Jonathan Vaughter's rise to the top. This time its two of everyones favourite teams: Telekom/T-Mobile/HTC, home of the many a famed rider but specifically Erik Zabel, Jan Ullrich and Mark Cavendish, and Quickstep, now OmegaPharma-Quickstep, or snappily known...

Tour Threads: Movistar, Liquigas.

Movistar and Liquigas are teams that seem to have been around forever, even though Liquigas has existed only in the new Millennium. Movistar, on the other hand, stretch back to the 1970s, and have an illustrious history that no team can match. Movistar Cycling would lose a wealth of history is Movistar were to fold,...

Tour Threads – Jerseys Through The Years: CSC/Saxo Bank, USPS/Discovery.

It's that time again. We're within a week till the Tour de France, and with that comes a myriad of information overload following a fairly dry patch post-Dauphine. Suddenly, everyone has a national championships, all the teams announce their Tour squads in quick succession and most of them suddenly decide they'd quite like a new...

The Aero Giro Air Attack – Original? Passing Fad? Ugly?

In the last few days, Giro, the Californian manufacturer whom now produce everything from helmets through to shoes, unveilved their new 'Air Attack' helmet, claimed to be the 'lowest wind-averaged aerodynamic drag of any road helmet design.' In doing so, they've created quite a furore. The apparently novel helmet is being branded ugly, pointless, a...

Ride – Paris-Roubaix Cyclo

Last weekend, I was 'lucky' enough to finally be able to take part in an event I'd been dying to do for the last four years: the biannual Paris-Roubaix Cyclotourisme. I'd wanted to take part in the last two editions of the 200km+ sportive, but had been unable to due to various prior commitments. In...

Welcome

  Well hello!     It only took around half an hour to come up with the opening line: starting is indeed the hardest thing to do. Numerous clichés were trialled and tribulated over, but hey, it's done now.     So what's the point of this blog? Primarily, simply to record some thoughts and...