Who will win the Giro di Controversy?
It’s here, the time anticipated by climbers and bike fans but dreaded by everybody else, the third week of the 2014 Giro d’Italia. As I write this Stage 17 has just got underway and Colombia’s Nairo...
View ArticlePeiper calls the BMC tune
BMC are a team transformed this year. Just look at the way they are riding in the Giro d’Italia in support of race leader Cadel Evans. They haven’t put a foot wrong so far. BMC 2013 and 2014 are like...
View ArticleWas the Giro’s start in Ireland just a step too far?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s good that Grand Tours start in other countries. It’s also great to take races like the Giro to places where cycling isn’t mainstream. It spreads the word and lets people...
View ArticleCould Cadel Evans win the 2014 Giro D’Italia?
It’s highly possible that Cadel Evans could win the 2014 Giro D’Italia. He could you know, the route plays to Evans’ greatest strength – he bends but never breaks. When he won the 2011 Tour de France...
View ArticleWiggins can win Paris-Roubaix next year
Yes, I know, I’m British so I would say that. But he can. Here’s why. Long before he won the Tour de France, which I did not see coming – I know I shouldn’t admit that, I’m supposed to be a cycling...
View ArticleOude-Kwaremont: The history of a hill
“There are two races for the Kwaremont; the race to it and the race up it, and of the two the race to it is the nastiest,” says double Tour of Flanders winner Peter Van Petegem. He continues; “It was...
View ArticleBarry Hoban: The Classics Man
Barry Hoban was the guest of honour at the Ghent-Wevelgem last weekend, to celebrate 40 years since he won the race. Hoban’s 1974 victory was at the expense of Belgium’s best cyclists, when they were...
View ArticlePreparing for battle in the Spring Classics
The first weekend of racing in northern Europe opens the traditional part of the road cycling year. We are one month away from some the oldest races in the sport: the Spring Classics. Road cycling is a...
View ArticleSky must ditch their 2013 Classics tactics
I’m back and I’m British, so I’m going to start with something on Team Sky. No, don’t click off. I’ve not come to praise Sky, although I’m not going to bury them either. It’s just that last year,...
View ArticleIs it time to start believing in cycling again?
Men’s professional road cycling has taken a terrible beating. The varnish has been stripped, the picture reduced to its true colours. Doping was rife. It was something every top pro faced. Many didn’t...
View ArticleWho’s the best pro road racer of the modern era?
First, what is the modern era? I’m taking it as post Miguel Indurain, and the question of who is the best arises now because the man who was accepted in the top slot, Lance Armstrong, has been stripped...
View ArticleWorld’s Road Race course always picks its champion
This has been true of the professional and now the elite world road race title ever since it started. Look back over the last few years. Copenhagen was flat, it was always going to end with a bunch...
View ArticleWas the Vuelta real road racing?
Did you enjoy the Vuelta? I did, the wild locations of the extreme climbs were beautiful. I like climbers too. The balletic grace of a true climber dancing off into the clouds is a joy to see. But what...
View ArticleCycling will emerge from the doping crisis it had to have
However it ends, USADA vs Lance Armstrong could hurt cycling. Once more, the sport’s dirty washing is spilling out of the basket – and it has to. It makes and is going to make ugly reading, but do you...
View ArticleWhen will Michael Rogers join Orica-GreenEdge?
It’s not a case of whether or not Michael Rogers will join Australia’s first World Tour cycling team. It’s a matter of when. He’s ready. Thirty-two now, Rogers has won world titles, been a superb...
View ArticleTour of Spain 2012 route is a hidden gem
It’s the final Grand Tour of the year, the Vuelta a Espana, or Tour of Spain, and it can be a bit of a yawn, but not this year. We’ve already had articles about the favourites, Chris Froome and Alberto...
View ArticleTeam GB: how do they do it?
It’s the question everybody’s asking in the velodrome. Well, everyone but the British, we are just enjoying it. Once the whole country almost basked in being rubbish at sport, but then the government...
View ArticleCycling Road Race: Great Britain’s gold gamble was wrong
The men’s road race worked out perfectly for Team Great Britain, right until the point when the world’s best single-day riders shot up the road on the last climb of Box Hill. The Brits tried a brave,...
View ArticleBritain excited as cycling spins its wheels into the Olympics
A country policeman ambling his watchful way through a thatched village, the district nurse pedalling to deliver another baby; they were the images of cycling in Britain. And they lasted in some...
View ArticleThe Next Big Battle: Australia takes on the Olympic Road Race
A country policeman ambling his watchful way through a thatched village, the district nurse pedalling to deliver another baby; they were the images of cycling in Britain. And they lasted in some...
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