Gazing into the crystal chainring brings twelve predictions for 2024 ranging from the Tour de France to tech and sports politics.
2024 Pro Cycling Calendar
Happy New Year, it’s 2024, an Olympic Year and they seem to come around quickly. The Tour Down Under is just days away.
Here’s the pro cycling calendar for 2024, free to download for your diary or phone. It’s packed with all the men’s and women’s pro races. So whether you’re making plans for next season, want to visit a race, or just need book sofa time or block that “work meeting” at the same time as the final hour of the GP E3, here it is…
The Christmas Quiz Answers
40 questions… and now 40 answers from ex-pros locked up in castles to the case of one rider punished by the UCI but featuring on chocolate bars as a result.
Housekeeping – Admin
Some boring admin. Mechanics have been busy with some software changes that make this site work.
Christmas Holiday Quiz
40 questions and loyal readers will know the drill. Some are easy, some will defeat Google and a few of the answers give us a sideways look at the sport…
Friday Shorts
Visma-Lease A Bike kit looks a lot like the Jumbo-Visma kit. Team sponsors can change but the team keeps its visual identity, it’s a sensible idea as long as the sponsors are ok, very often they are so sensitive to their branding that they want “their” team to adopt every style and brand guideline they have.
Highlights of 2023
A look back. In previous years five races have been picked as highlights but that was just too hard, there were more than five stages of the Tour de France that stood out, just picking between them was much. Some highlights in rapidfire…
Pogačar To The Giro
There goes the dream of a fit and fresh Tadej Pogačar taking on Jonas Vingegaard next summer with the news that Pogačar will race the Giro d’Italia in 2024. The pre-race Giro preview here has suddenly got easier but there are more important knock-on effects.
Paris-Nice Route
The Paris-Nice route for 2024 is out early this time, normally it’s been unveiled in January. The race takes place between Sunday 3 and Sunday 10 March. The theme could have been test race ahead of the Tour de France and its finish in Nice in July but in fact very few roads are shared.