by Simon Crisp
This is one of a series of looks at advertising in cycling, mostly informed by looking back through past issues of Procycling magazine. The bicycle saddle inhabits a peculiar dichotomy of worlds - it is both the most important physical, and least important aesthetic, part of a bicycle. It is your primary contact point, yet... Continue Reading →
Race charts for all Grand Tours since 1998
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 →
The Kazakhs had another highly eventful year in 2008, taking their 2nd and 3rd Grand Tours, but not without lashings of controversy. For the previous years, see 2006 and 2007 January 5th 2008 Johan Bruyneel insists that Astana is "not a copy of Discovery Channel" and claims to have "certain written guarantees" about the... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
During my time doing the whole graphical top ten malarky (see elsewhere on the site), I got a bit fed up of seeing each Tour as a bunch of lines and tried to offset this by looking at images of those races. That gave me an idea to try and think up a defining image... Continue Reading →
This is part of my project to analyse the Grand Tours by looking at the times of the top ten riders in relation to the race leader. This produces some rather lovely graphs which show an interesting picture of the race, showing the time gaps between riders at different stages, the rate of gain they... Continue Reading →
It's 2015, which means that before we know it, we will be at the Giro, and the Grand Tours will be under way. So, as an interesting aside, I thought it would be novel to look at just how many riders actually win a Grand Tour stage. Since (and including) 1999, there have been 48... Continue Reading →
Who are the sponsor? Cannondale are a USA bike manufacturer. Nationality: Italian-American 2013 Ranking: 9th Past Stars: Danilo Di Luca, Vincenzo Nibali, Daniele Bennati, Romain Kreuziger, Robert Kiserlovski, Franco Pellizotti Selected Team Palmares: Green Jersey 2012 & 2013 Tour de France , Stages, Tour de France 2012 x 3, 2013,Stages, Vuelta a Espana 2011 x... Continue Reading →
Who are the sponsor? Cannondale are a USA bike manufacturer. Nationality: They're still technically Italian, but with a new American sponsor, they seem to be claiming to be from the USA what with their swanky LA launch. 2012 Ranking: 3rd (as Liquigas-Cannondale) Past Stars: Danilo Di Luca, Vincenzo Nibali, Daniele Bennati, Romain Kreuziger, Robert Kiserlovski, Franco... Continue Reading →
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