Category Archives: Commentary

Is a Sky top ten in the future? (Image from skysports.com)

Leaked: Sky’s plans for total podium domination in Tour

It was a sickening move. He was clearly under team orders to hold back and yet he acted on his own impulse, threw caution to the wind and defied the…

pVAM vs. actual VAM

A different approach to comparing climbing performances

“Initially my aim was to test the hypothesis that the metrics of cycling performance are not relevant to discussions on the subject. Arguments are often based on the observation that…

Hell of the Liguria (photo from RCS Sport)

‘First it was comical, then it was only hell’

  The Hell of the (Italian) North came a few weeks early in Sunday’s snow-spattered Milan-San Remo, which reduced a peloton of grown men to frozen tears and congealed grimaces…

illustration by Anders Bendixen

Foot-in-mouth disease casts pall over great racing

The road to hell is paved with best intentions, and the current state of cycling shows us that many people with the best of intentions are making grandiose comments, revising…

Geert Leinders (Getty images)

Is there a doctor in the house?

Updated 14 March 2013 A few days ago, Irish journalist Paul Kimmage congratulated Daniel Benson of Cyclingnews for being the only journalist to ask Sky rider Mat Hayman about his…

(Photo: Getty Images)

Portly Richie sparks the scaremongers into a frenzy

In his latest column for Cyclismas, Blazin’ Saddles drops the wise-cracking facade and has a go at actually writing something vaguely serious… Saddleblaze has a confession to make: he didn’t…

Surprise gladiator Kadri emerges the victor

Stud Pippo denied by angelic Kadri in Rome

If ever there was an argument in favour of race radio it came on Sunday when Filippo Pozzato celebrated what he thought was a hard-earned victory in the Roma Maxima….

Armstrong Sim Hgb gm/dL

Laying waste to the yellow jersey myths

Ferrari/Armstrong Rebuttal, Part 3 “Armstrong could have beat the dopers” no fuggin way altitude could have been as effective as his doping no fuggin way no fuggin way no fuggin…

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Explained: blood dope simulator + blood dope physiology

  thissus the biggun the video explainer: uv Veloclinic Blood Dope Simulator v3.1 (link for v 3.1 of the blood dope simulator where the blood equation was updated) the basic…

Jim Ochowicz with John Lelangue at the 2012 Tour de France. Will Ochowicz be subjected to more scrutiny? (photo courtesy Casey B. Gibson via velonews.com(

Current attitudes do not absolve past sins

Increasingly of late, we’re seeing just how high the skeletons of cycling have been stacked underwater as the tide rolls back to reveal the carnage. The scramble to highlight current…