Final KM: Santos Tour Down Under Stage 1
G’Day Veloshirians!! WorldTour racing is back with the Tour Down Under. While we’re all trying to get to grip with transfers, … Continue reading
Tweets of the Week 2019: Amusing, mystifying and disturbing
It’s the start of a new cycling season and therefore it’s the start of a new season of Tweets of … Continue reading
How the hell … did you get into the sport of cycling?
It’s 2019, kids, and we’re starting the New Year off right. With you! A few months ago, Journal Velo put out the … Continue reading
Men’s 2018 season : A to Z – Part 2 #NoGoTour to Zoncolan
Part Two of our A to Z of the 2018 season – we have riders who set off on their … Continue reading
Men’s 2018 season: A to Z, part 1 – Alaphilippe to Monuments
It’s our A to Z of men’s 2018 season – we’ve had some interesting times, some exciting times and some … Continue reading
VeloVoices Awards 2018 : All the results!
We had 11 categories, two weeks (or thereabouts) of voting and these are the results of the Veloshirians …
VeloVoices Podcast 132: Awards 2018 – Potato-filled with a dollop of Danes
It’s time to reveal the winners of the 2018 VeloVoices Awards. Your favourite races, riders, stories and moments from an epic cycling season. Luke, Kathi, Midge and Euan don their gladrags and open the envelopes. Is the finish of stage 4 of the Dubai Tour better than Milan-Sanremo’s? Has Floortje Mackaij got better locks than Daniel Oss? And who wins the coveted Rider of the Year awards? We might be a little rusty getting back into podcasting after a long break but we had fun – hopefully you can hear the results over the laughter …
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Christmas Gift Guide 2018 : Give a little bit – cycling charities
I think most of us would agree that cycling has a lot of benefits – physical, mental, financial – and that riding a bike gives a person a certain autonomy, a freedom to come and go as you please – a self reliance. So my Christmas gift guide this year is dedicated to charities and non-profits that help make cycling accessible for those whose lives could significantly change by having two wheels to set them on their way. Give once, give regularly, volunteer or even just find your own way to spread the velolove where it’s needed most. Any way you want to do it, giving back is the best gift you can give. Continue reading
VeloVoices Awards 2018: Lifetime Achievement
There’s a sad sort of clanking from the clock in the hall at VeloVoices Towers, which regretfully tells us it’s time to bid farewell, so long and adieu to some peloton favourites. Here is our list of nominees for the lifetime achievement award and it’s chock-full of deserving candidates and persuasive arguments. And one very, very controversial outlier. Vote now – and if you think we’ve missed someone off, write them in!
Videos
Davide Formolo (Cannondale-Garmin) delivered for the team at this year’s Giro d’Italia with a popular solo win on stage four. Called up only a fortnight before the start, he hadn’t specifically trained for the race, which leaves us wondering whether he might have bettered his overall 31st place if he’d targetted this race. Keeping the pink glow going, he looks back at his first Grand Tour.
Created in 1993 to enable amateur cyclists to personally experience a stage of each year’s Tour de France, L’Etape de Tour is THE cyclosportive. This year’s event takes place on Sunday 19th July over 142km from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire.
All places are taken for this year’s Etape (unless you get a place with a tour operator or through a charity). Places go fast as soon as registration opens so if you want to get a jump on proceedings for next year, take a minute to register with ASO Challenges. Registration details are here. Also, follow l’Etape on Twitter and Facebook for news all year round.
Links: Official website
Images
To many of us, the Grubers’ work really epitomises the Belgian Cobbled Classics. If you haven’t seen their gallery for Cannondale-Garmin, go now!
http://slipstreamsports.com/2015/03/30/gallery-gent-wevelgem-gruber-images/
“We’ve tried to go down roads and go through places that are far more interesting than the number of watts we’re putting out and the speed we’re averaging.” Gus Morton
The Australian cycling site, Cycling Tips, just goes from strength to strength in my book. Up on the site now is Thereabouts, a 45-minute documentary made with Gus and Lachlan Morton about their experience riding from Port Macquarie to Uluru – riding over 2,000km in just 12 days. Why did they do it? To reconnect with the reasons why they started riding in the first place. Click here to read more about their story.
Read about it, watch it, get inspired by it.
Asides
All of the history and excitement of the world’s most famous one-day bicycle race in one coffee-table book. Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell is an essential read for anyone interested in this spectacular race.
Want your own kit or need something special for your cycling club? Contact G4 who provide a custom service!
http://www.calameo.com/read/003111411e32746b42755
Quotes
“Riders like me and Cancellara don’t think about the points, just the win.”
Vincenzo Nibali bemoans the lack of fierce joy in the riders of the peloton, many of whom he believes play it safe and ride just for points, not the win.
Read his straight-talking interview on Velonews.
When asked what animal he would like to be, Bernie Eisel answered ‘My cat. She has the best life you can imagine!’
I happen to know that there are a whole lotta ladies out there who would kill to be Bernie’s cat. I’ll leave that there …
The face a million women love (Image: Team Sky)
Here is Team Sky’s 20 Questions to the Ladies Favourite
