This article first appeared on Eurosport.Yahoo.com on Saddleblaze’s weekly Blazin’ Saddles blog page. “We would have wanted to invite Tyler Hamilton for other reasons. But he has done a lot…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The group representing the rights of French fashion models has filed a lawsuit in Paris against the Association of Professional Cyclists (CPA), which represents most of the professional cycling peloton, for allegedly…
In a statement to the press today, a serene Mark Cavendish described his coping strategies for an absence of controversy at his new team. After a 2012 campaign at Team…
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…
In a surprise move, the “Very, Very British and Proper Cycling Press Association” announced their steadfast refusal to cover any aspect of the impending criminal investigation into the activities of…
They haven’t been separated for long – but already both Bernie Eisel and Mark Cavendish are reminding each other just what their former partner is missing out on in the…
