by Simon Crisp
One day into Tadej Pogacar’s season, and already the commentators are rolling out the “we’ve run out of superlatives” cliché, having watched the Slovenian ride away with 80km to go at Strade Bianche, surpassing his previous record of 49km on his prior triumph. Whilst Pog’s victory was all the more impressive due to his literal... Continue Reading →
Having just gone through what was, in the most politest terms, a PR incident in having to effectively have crisis talks with riders to decide which one of them was allowed to win a Grand Tour, you would have thought the last thing Jumbo-Visma wanted to do was to create more controversy that might remove... Continue Reading →
Race charts for all Grand Tours since 1998
Youth has been all the rage in cycling recently, with teams reaching increasingly deep into the noughties to try and avoid missing out on the next once-in-a-generation talent (which is odd, because since 2019, we've seen Bernal, Pogacar, and now Evenepoel all lauded as being about to win the Tour for the next decade) in... Continue Reading →
It's Oscars time, when arthouse cinema gathers together, thinks its popular, then is shocked when the films that win don't do particularly well at the box office. Whilst this years nominees are an eclectic mix of biographies, neo-westerns and god-awful climate change analogies, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as it is officially... Continue Reading →
There is an argument that the most recognisable symbol of cycling is not, somehow, a bicycle, but a piece of clothing that when introduced was made of a colour that was traditionally associated with Judas Iscariot and had connotations of illness and duplicity, that has come to be the most coveted jersey a cyclist can wear. The history of the yellow jersey - the malliot jaune - is well documented elsewhere in terms of how it became such an iconic garment (I recommend Peter Cossins's "The Yellow Jersey" for it's brilliant mix of historic, symbolic and cultural research), so this is simply a look at how the famous golden fleece has been utilised for the purposes of capitalism - encouraging us to buy more stuff from the pages of ProCycling.
"We apologise in advance if our ads look like they're written by engineers. We figure you would rather read and add designed by an Engineer than ride a bike designed by a marketing department."
ProCycling is the doyenne of Cycling Magazines in the UK, being within a year of overtaking the now defunct Cycle Sport magazine (1993-2016, RIP) in terms of longevity, although it still has some way to go to match its new stablemate Cycling Weekly, which is coming up to 130 years of age. Since the last... Continue Reading →
A nice idea from our editor in chief. In order to enable sportsmen to recognise the leader of our great trek without hesitation when he's within the Tour de France peloton, our editor in chief, Henri Desgrange, has decided that in the future the rider holding first place in the general classification will wear a... Continue Reading →
It is one of the most iconic sights in cycling. The malliot jaune, astride a glittering, science fiction bicycle decked out in the finest aerodynamic garb, coursing through the fields of sunflowers to cement or defend their glory. It has now passed into cliché that the time trial is “the race of truth”, where one... Continue Reading →
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