by Simon Crisp
Lucky you, you won't have to read any of my ramblings for a while (unless that is, I find an internet connection of some kind). Fleeing the 'British Summer', what with its scorching 14 degree Celsius max temperatures and lashing of cooling rain, I'm off to Majorca, where its currently 21 degrees minimum. Bliss. So... Continue Reading →
Yep, sorry, I've given in, and written a post that has something to do with Mr Armstrong. Frankly though, I don't want to get into the now extremely tedious and unending discussion about guilt etc, which is just the road to sniping, inflammatory comments that quickly degrade into puerile insults judging from the last, what,... Continue Reading →
As many have sardonically noted, there was more attacking in the five and half kilometres of the final climb on stage three of the Vuelta then in the entirety of the mountains of the Tour de France. Only four days in, and the Vuelta has had time trial mishaps, miscalculated times, photo finishes, crosswinds,... Continue Reading →
Yorkshire. Yorkshire. Have ASO been to Yorkshire?! They're certainly looking increasingly likely to give the Tour the the region. Horrifyingly, the bid would start in Leeds. Yes, Leeds, the city with the world's most moronic ring-road. And it's Leeds, it doesn't even sound right compared with other recent Grand Depart names - Monaco, Rotterdam, Liege,... Continue Reading →
Team Sky have what, if we are to judge from the Olympics, two of the three best time triallists in the world in Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome. British Cycling, the over arching structure behind Team Sky and its British contingent, is famous for its much over used 'marginal gains' mantra that has introduced the... Continue Reading →
We are having a feast of cycling this year. Thanks to the Olympics, the usual post Tour drought, usually filled by Eneco and Poland, has passed much quicker then usual, and already we're onto the Vuelta. Helping the feeling of time flying by is that Alberto Contador is back from his two year suspension, yes,... Continue Reading →
Like most people who follow sports, cycling fans all perceive themselves to know more about their sport then other fans. Cycling is pretty much all about a continual game of one-up manship anyway, and so any method of demonstrating how your banks of cycling knowledge are superior is gladly welcomed. Such a way is the... Continue Reading →
Back in the 1920s,1929 to be exact, the Tour de France was, in the eyes of the tyrannical organiser Henri Desgrange, meant to be a race for individuals. He had made it clear that his perfect Tour was one were 'only one rider made it to the finish' and his every grand attempts to make... Continue Reading →
As I'm writing a dissertation next year on Italy, mainly about the joys of Italian cycling and how it came to shape the nation, I thought every so often I'd share a bit of the research that it involves. So far it's nothing ground breaking or even things that more accomplished fans won't know about,... Continue Reading →
The other day, I was watching a DVD of the 2010 Giro d'Italia for a research project, and the narrator made the claim that in the prologue city of Amsterdam, there are around 700,000 citizens, and over 2 million bikes. That almost three bikes per person. I'm lucky enough to have family in the Netherlands,... Continue Reading →
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