Cycling quite obviously lends itself to photography. Men and women doing heroic stuff on bikes, framed by epic backdrops of various Alps, velodromes, Pyrenees, Dolomites muurs and bloody sunflowers. Roadsides teeming with devils, mankinis, Dirk Hofman and those guys with American football gear while riders battle it out shoulder to shoulder or count down the lonely [...]
In this episode, we bring you a farce based on evidence from serial perjurers and those who were coerced through threats & sweetheart deals. Yup, with only one story in town, we just couldn’t ignore it. We also discuss how Sky (and other teams & riders) have dealt with the fallout. Finally we look [...]
Welcome to our 2012 Tour de France preview episode. Jam-packed with ill-informed opinion, reckless predictions & downright anti-Spanish racism. In a brief diversion, we get side tracked into discussing the excellent interview of Stephen Roche, carried out by Jack Thurston of The Bike Show. Jack did an absolutely brilliant job of putting Stephen on the [...]
We Brits are a curious lot. We are living through an age of unprecedented national success in cycling but somehow we seem desperate for an excuse for it all to end. Bradley Wiggins has just won the Critérium du Dauphiné for the second year in a row, in convincing fashion (and we all know that with Brad [...]
In this episode we discuss the UCI’s plans to introduce a doping tribunal in the hope of speeding up the hearing process & avoid the kind of drawn-out saga currently being played out with Alberto Contador. In other UCI-related news, we report on the allegations in Swiss newspaper, l’Illustre, suggesting that Vino paid Alexander Kolobnev [...]
In this episode we have an interview with downhill World Champion & World Cup winner Tracy Moseley. Tracy was very generous with our time & we think the result is a splendid interview – even if we do say so ourselves. (Thanks to Rob Jones of Canadiancyclist.com for allowing us to use his photo of Tracy taken at [...]
Gary ponders if it was a case of too much too soon for the Tour runner-up. Or too little too late. Gary Imlach referred to Sky’s Juan Antonia Flecha as “Norman Stanley” during this year’s Tour de France coverage on ITV4, probably instantly alienating an entire generation of British cycling fans who are not of [...]
Having just spent 3 weeks watching Le Tour, you will probably be none too enamoured by the idea of spending the next 3 listening to our seemingly interminable ramblings on the subject. However, here it is, including a host of rider nicknames to add to the confusion. Welcome Fran, Mandy, Tenacious V and Sammy the [...]
Get up, get down & stay down! The dust has settled – or perhaps less poetically, the dust has been washed off my bike and I sit here in a post-Ventoux funk, vaguely muttering about “new fitness goals” and suchlike. There was always going to be a come-down after everything that had led to the [...]
On va dire, tout le monde – what a pair of eejits! This picture fairly accurately captures our feelings in the starting pens. Actually, veal crates may be more accurate than starting pens given the stress levels for the half hour before the off. After cramming down cereal, fruit juice, coffee (as per Rule 34), [...]