100 Days to Paris – How Cycling’s Olympic Champions showed off their success

With 100 days to go until the Paris Olympics begins, possibly in the Seine, possibly not, here's some nostalgia as we look back at the male winners of the professional era of the Olympic Games Road and Time Trial races, and how they celebrated their triumph with liberal application of the colour gold. The Olympics...

Monument Ages – Is Pogacar on track to conquer Merckx?

At the start of the Volta a Catalunya this year, a race he went on to dominate with the overall, four stage wins, the points and mountains competitions all coming home with the Slovenian, Tadej Pogacar was asked whether he was thinking about his place in cycling history. "Yeah," he replied, "Now I have arrived...

At what literal stage can you be comfortable you’ve won a Grand Tour?

Sepp Kuss eh? Whilst many of us probably had strong convictions that Jumbo-Visma would become the first time to complete the the Grand Tour clean sweep in a calendar year, we likely didn't have the 61kg American down to complete the trilogy over his multiple Grand Tour-winning teammates, Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic. Obviously, he...

Is the Tour de France getting closer?

Up until the Col de la Loze stage, the 2023 Tour de France seemed on track to be one of the closest ever. The gap between Tadej Pogacar and eventual winner Jonas Vingegaard had been measured in a few seconds, rather than the minutes we're often used to, and there was discussion about the race...

How have WorldTour teams performed and played the transfer market over the years?

Rather than generate actual excitement, the current "relegation battle" between WorldTour teams seems to be creating lots of exercises for statisticians and data analysts in trying to explain the UCI's labyrinthine points system to cycling fans, who you'd kinda expect to know a great deal about the sport in the first place, but simply cannot...

Casting Cycling’s Oscar Winning Movie

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...

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...

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."

1999-2021 through ProCycling covers

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...

“A nice idea from our editor in chief” – Yellow, 2000-2019

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...