If you live beneath someone who combines a wooden floor with Cuban or high heels, you’ll know that sound travels rather well through solid objects. It’s on the exact principle…

What are you looking for when you buy a cycling book? For the most part, cycling books deliver facts, some more coldly than others. By and large they tend to…

Our friends over at Vulpine have done up a Women’s Specific range, and ever the willing guinea pig (in spite of my self-proclaimed status as a skills-deficient, limited-talent, non-pro, slower-than-treacle-flowing-uphill-in-winter…

It’s the fall guys that make history. History is their requiem.
 ~ Raymond Chandler   If David Millar’s Racing Through the Dark is this generation’s A Rough Ride then Tyler…

  By the time Marty Nothstein hung up his wheels in 2006 he was the most decorated American track cyclist of all time. In his time he had won thirty-five…

“Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.” ~ Akira Kurosawa     Bjarne Riis’s autobiography really should have been…

We’ve looked at the version of the 1996 Tour de France as it was reported at the time (part 1 and part 2). We’ve looked at the sensible justifications offered…

Having looked at the version of the Tour de France that was reported at the time (part 1 + part 2), we now look at some of the explanations and…

Our look at Bjarne Riis’s rise to the top of cycling’s greasy pole continues, picking up the story of the 1996 Tour de France on the first day in the…

With the publication of the English-language translation of Bjarne Riis’s autobiography – Riis: Stages of Light and Darkness (Vision Sports Publishing) – let’s turn the clock back and take a…