The Scrabble Test – are team names getting longer and more complex?

If you're a cycling commentator, things are about to get more complex in 2024. It's going to tricky enough remembering to call Jumbo-Visma Visma-Lease-a-bike, and then you've got to remember that the long time Arkea-Samsic are now Arkea-B&B Hotels. Then, when you've strained your gray matter not to mess those up, you've got to wrap...

Goodnight, sweet prince – a fond farewell to Ag2R’s Brown Shorts

And whether we shall meet again I know not.Therefore our everlasting farewell take:For ever, and for ever, farewell, brown shorts!If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;If not, why then, this parting was well made. It has finally happened dear friends. After fourteen, long, glorious years, we have been stripped, nay, robbed, of one...

2024 Cycling Jerseys

After a season where we thought we might have to combine the colours of Soudal and Jumbo with all the accompanying wishful concepts, and wondered how Arkea red would go with B&B Hotels green, we finally have the first official team kits starting to come out for the 2024 season. As usual, we'll update this...

Goodbye, the ProTour ever-presents – and who are the longest-serving riders?

2024 will mark the first season where no rider from the original 2005 intake of the ProTour will be still be riding in its successor competition, the WorldTour. Similarly, the last couple of weeks have seen Geraint Thomas extend his Ineos contract till 2025, meaning he'll have served 16 seasons on the British team by...