Lunch with Matteo Trentin
Open Skies, August 2018 Through clouds of dust, bikes can just about be made out, strewn across an unpaved road where bodies lie prone on the cold ground of Northern France. Crashes are a part […]
Ben East
Sunday In Hell by William Fotheringham
Twenty minutes into Jorgen Leth’s revolutionary film about the 1976 Paris-Roubaix bike race, Eddy Merckx, Roger De Vlaeminck, Freddy Maertens and Francesco Moser (not forgetting Marc Demeyer) finally leave Chantilly for the famous velodrome 273 […]
The Ronde by Edward Pickering
This Easter Sunday, thousands of devotees will make their pilgrimage to hallowed ground in Belgium. They may touch the cobbled streets in awe, they may even stop to genuflect at the Chapel of the Onze […]
The Cycling Podcast by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie & Daniel Friebe
I can remember the first time I listened to The Cycling Podcast. It was 2014, there was a long car journey to fill, and the way cycling writers Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore […]
In brief: Reservoir 13; Nefertiti’s Face; Restless Souls
The Observer Jon McGregor’s interesting take on crime in the community, a breezy history of the Egyptian queen by Joyce Tyldesley and an enjoyable first tragicomic novel from Dan Sheehan Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor 4th […]