Aug 25, 2020 | Giro d'Italia, Greg LeMond, Laurent Fignon, Road Cycling, The Professor, Tour de France
August 2020 represents 60 years since the birth of Laurent Patrick Fignon and a short 10 years since his death. Fignon (Le Professeur – The Professor), 12 August 1960 – 31 August 2010; was a French Professional Road Cycle Racer, who won the Tour de France in 1984 and...
Jul 10, 2020 | Bradley Wiggins, Eurosport, Olympics, Road Racing, Tour de France
Money woes continue for Olympian and Tour de France winner Sir Bradly Wiggins. At the end of 2019 he wound up two of his companies with debts of more than £1m after the failure of his Team Wiggins cycling team. A report has revealed that Wiggins Rights Ltd, the...
Mar 5, 2020 | Cycling, Road Racing, Tour de France
The 2020 Pro-Cycling Season, has well and truly started. With the Tour Down Under (21st – 26th Jan) won by Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo), all those fans are looking forward to a great year of cycling. Out to the UAE in February, then the Classics from March… With the...
Nov 10, 2019 | Cold Weather, Hydration, Road Bikes, Road Cycling, Water
October has rolled around again, and here in the UK, we are having one of those ‘early winter’ freezing weeks. The wind in coming down from the Arctic, and to say that it is ‘cold’ is an understatement. I accept that we don’t have anything like the winters in Canada...
Oct 25, 2019 | Cycling, Mark Cavendish, Tour of Britain
I’m a great fan of the Tour of Britain, and have followed it from the early days of The Milk Race. The 2019 Ovo Energy Tour of Britain was an eight-stage men’s professional road cycling race. It was the sixteenth running of the modern version of the Tour of...
