Change Kits – The Ranking

A straw man often employed by the media is that cycling claims to be a green sport, but is nothing of the sort. They cite the team cars, air travel and plastic bidons as being indicative of hypocrisy, yet teams have rarely, if at all bothered to push any sort of environmental cause as part...

A Brief History of Tour de France Rules

Cycling likes to thing it is timeless, the embodiment of nostalgia itself, constantly referring back to it's previous exploits and attempting to make the new mirror the old. But the laws by which the Tour have been governed haven't always been the same, and that's not just the tinkering with points and mountains classifications and...

The Longest Wait? Was Cofidis’s 15 year drought really the longest in the Tour?

Three US Presidents, six British Prime Ministers, 127 new riders, 298 Tour de France stages and 339 UK Number One singles after July 25th 2008, Cofidis no longer have to reference a rider who retired five seasons ago as the last rider to win a Tour de France stage for the team. Yes, Sylvain Chavanel...