Do Quick Step really have 900 victories?

A win is a win, isn't it? You cross the line first, you outscore the opposition, you're more accurate than them, or whatever the requirement is in your particular chosen sport. In cycling, you cross the line first, or you win a stage race by accumulating the lowest amount of time taken to compete the...

Cycling Adverts – Helmets

This is one of a series of  looks at advertising in cycling, mostly informed by looking back through past issues of Procycling magazine. We all love a good advert, don’t we? Those little snippets of language or imagery created with the sole intent to make us feel part of something, or to instil a desire...

The Twenty Tens – Tour de France

The decade is done, and we're probably not going to see much of the Tour for a while, so here's a throwback ranking of the ten Tours that made up the Twenty Tens. 10th: 2012 1st: Bradley Wiggins [GBR] - Team Sky 2nd: Chris Froome [GBR] - Team Sky 3rd: Vincenzo Nibali [ITA] - Liquigas-Doimo...

2018 World Tour Team Previews – Part 1

BMC Racing Team How did they do in 2017? In terms of volume of success, BMC had a stellar 2017, wracking up the highest number of victories in the team's lifespan, with almost all of the team taking a win of some kind. They also managed to finally secure their first Monument win courtesy of...

2018 Cycling Jerseys

THIS PAGE IS UPDATED AS NEW KITS ARE LEAKED/ANNOUNCED So, the yearly extravaganza that is the release of cycling jerseys for the new season has begun in earnest this year on September 11th (you'll, er, remember the date?!), a full three months before the new year, with Movistar getting underway. So, let's see what the...

Giving up: Abandon Rates since ’98

When Katusha's Michael Mørkøv climbed off his bicycle on the road to Luchon, ending his involvement in the eighth stage of the 2016 Tour de France, he was writing his name into (admittedly very cycling specific) Trivial Pursuit answer books for years to come. The reason? Mørkøv was the first man to abandon the entire race,...

2017 Cycling Jerseys

THIS PAGE IS UPDATED AS NEW KITS ARE LEAKED/ANNOUNCED Last year, I made a series of wishes for 2017 cycling kits. They were... For the love of god, can BMC PLEASE change their kit to something else. It’s very nice as it is, granted. But a refresh would help them in more ways then one. No...

Astana – A History: 2007

Continuing on from where we left off in 2006, the ever up and down tale of everyone's favourite Kazakhstani cycling team continues... January 11th 2007 Riders who had previously had contracts with Astana complain about the situation. The problem is that the previous Astana structure had essentially been dissolved in December 2006, and the license...

Tour de France 2016 – Stage Winners

This year sees the Tour de France being contested by multiple, multiple winners (if you watch my drift...) for the first time since 1994, when Greg Lemond (on three wins) and Miguel Indurain (in the process of taking a fourth) rode together for the last time. Twelve years on, we now have Chris Froome (2013...

Astana – A History: 2006

Astana have recently begun celebrating their tenth anniversary, which is an interesting exercise in nostalgia. Given that ten years ago they weren't allowed to start the Tour de France because half their team was suspended due to doping allegations, meaning the team didn't have enough riders (and this was after they'd appealed to CAS to...