Grand Tours 1998-2023: Top Ten Times

Race charts for all Grand Tours since 1998

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 – Cannondale

This is one of a series of upcoming 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...

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...

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...

Entertaining Grand Tours…by the numbers!

Now that the hangover from the Miracle of Risoul has subsided somewhat, we can reflect on the 2016 Giro, and view it without the pink haze that surrounded Vincenzo Nibali's incredible turn around to retrieve his second maglia rosa. In a cycling world where we seem to think races are being increasingly controlled and predictable,...

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...

2015 Tour de France Grand Depart

Well done Utrecht. Although you wouldn't know it from watching British commentary (who oddly enough don't seem to comment on the numbers of people attending when they're on the continent - well, unless its Carlton Kirby being patronising, that is), "Utrechtians" turned out in droves to witness some some fine examples of time trialing prowess around...

A few Pre-Tour facts and figures

Here's a few facts and figures to wile away the hours until the Tour begins. Time Trials Just 1.24% (41.8km) of this year's route will be made up of Time Trials, the lowest amount in the 1980 to 2015 period. The only other times it has taken up under 2% between 1980 and 2015 was...