by Simon Crisp
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... 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 →
"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 →
Ah Milan-San Remo, La Primavera, The Sprinter's Classic, the first Monument of the season, the easiest race to ride but the hardest to win, La Classicissima. It goes by many names, and for a race said to favour the sprinters, it produces a myriad of outcomes. Below, we celebrate the last 21 editions with some... Continue Reading →
Under 27.04? Then good news! You are still below the average age of a grand tour stage winning rider: your hopes of turning pro and becoming a star still have a glimmer of hope. However, whilst your youth may give you some cause for optimism, you’re probably pretty unlikely to take home the record for... 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 →
Stage wins, yellow jerseys and top 10s As mentioned before, the Tour began with 198 riders, of which there where three previous winners of the race, as well as five other Grand Tour winners. There were also 36 previous stage winners, who had won 106 stages between them, as well as eleven previous wearers of... Continue Reading →
When Felix Levitan,the Tour de France director, was told he could finish the Tour de France in the center of Paris, rather than it's previous finish locations of the Parc des Princes Velodrome (1903-1967) or the La Cipale Velodrome (1968-1974), he was bullish in his proposals - he wanted what he thought was the most... Continue Reading →
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