Jumbo-Visma – Quick Step, or a Brief History of Mergers and why they’re (nearly) always rubbish

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...

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...

Cycling Adverts – Cervélo

"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."

13 years of ProCycling Kits

After the graphic based version of "peloton fashions", I went and made a version with actual photos in it. It doesn't include Bora, Domina Vacanze or Bahrain Merida (yet), but otherwise, it should, hopefully, be accurate. Enjoy! You'll probably need to open the image in a new tab to, er, see it in all glory....

The Top 25 Most Stage Winning Bicycle Manufacturers of the last 25 years

Got your head around that title? I havent quite, so let's go over what this is about. As in tune with my work-in-progress Grand Tour Stages project, one of its many, many aims is to try and count what bicycles stage winners in Grand Tours used, and thus which has the most wins in history...

Has the WorldTour made cycling more International?

The ProTour, and it's child/sister project the World Tour, were not created with the intention of creating a more globalised, international cycle sport, although the World Tour's name has enough inference to suggest this should be expected of it. Instead, it was meant to unify cycling's calendar and ensure that the top teams and riders...

The Recent History of Bike Brands as Team Sponsors

In 2013, there will be three WorldTour teams with their bike brand as a title sponsor of the team: BMC, Cannondale and Lampre-Merida. Last year, Colnago sponsored a pro-conti team and Giant briefly flirted with the idea of become the title sponsor of what is now the Blanco team, whilst Radioshack techically had Trek in...

Sky Alumni – The 21 men who left

Team Sky have made seven new signings for 2013, which will bring the number of riders who have ridden for the team up to an impressive 48. But of those men, 21 have left the team. Who are these guys? Why did they leave? Read on... 2010 was the Year of Sky's inception, and their...