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A fans’ guide to knowing where to draw ‘the line’ when it comes to Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky doping allegations

March 7, 2018 · by Alex · in General

It would be good to write about Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico this week, but unfortunately that’ll have to wait. Right now we need to talk about Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky, British Cycling and the latest wave…

Bradley Wiggins’ gurning on The Jump – a real dignity-stripper with which to commence retirement

February 6, 2017 · by Alex · in General

Bradley Wiggins has retired from cycling. I would have written something about it sooner, but he voiced so many contradictory plans that it wasn’t until I saw the last 25 seconds of The Jump last…

All the unsatisfying equivocal answers about Bradley Wiggins’ asthma TUEs

September 26, 2016 · by Alex · in General

There are things I write about because I want to and there are things I write about because I think it’ll look weird if I don’t. This is the latter. Don’t get me wrong. It’s…

The freakish box-ticking of Bradley Wiggins – a World Championships Time Trial review

September 24, 2014 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

Sit Bradley Wiggins down, hand him a form and a ballpoint pen and ask him to tick some boxes. He’ll look at you with a surly look on his face and probably flick the pen…

Dylan Van Baarle clings on to win the Tour of Britain

September 15, 2014 · by Alex · in Stage races

The Tour of Britain is not a top flight race and Dylan Van Baarle’s victory would seem to reflect that. But let’s just see how he goes next season. Van Baarle beat some top riders…

Mark Renshaw wins one for the pilot fish

September 9, 2014 · by Alex · in Stage races

I probably should have done some sort of ‘riders to watch’ post for the Tour of Britain. Fortunately, the end of stage two did it for me with many of the strongest names taking turns…

Wiggins, Froome and Grand Tour fitness

June 27, 2014 · by Alex · in Tour de France

You can ride hard one day and then feel good enough to ride hard again the next day or you can ride hard one day and then need to spend the next day on the…

Domenico Pozzovivo rises up hillside and general classification

May 19, 2014 · by Alex · in Giro d'Italia, Stage races

You can’t claim ignorance of the major protagonist from yesterday’s stage, for it was Domenico Pozzovivo, the object of infatuation for this website. The stars aligned for our Domenico. It was dry, it was uphill…

Bradley Wiggins performs on the rest day

May 13, 2014 · by Alex · in Stage races

That kind of sounds like he gathered all the riders together and did a stand-up routine or sang I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor for them. But no, he’s actually elsewhere, racing on his bicycle….

Four British riders for the Spring Classics

November 28, 2013 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

I make no apologies for the Brit-centric nature of this website. I have milk in my tea and it’s a .co.uk domain name. You can’t argue with unshakeable truths such as those. Today’s article therefore…

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