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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is a brilliant moment in Graeme Obree’s ‘training manual for cyclists’ where he discusses whether sex will lead to a lack of focus or energy for a race. The two times world hour record […]
First published in The Observer, December 27 2015 When Bradley Wiggins attempted to break the record for the furthest distance cycled in one hour last summer at the Olympic velodrome in London, the sell-out atmosphere […]