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Paris-Roubaix 1960 was an especially historic edition. It was the first race ever to be televised in the way racers are today, with motorbike mounted cameras relaying live coverage to a helicopter receiver. The signal was then relayed from the helicopter to a distributer, which

They are fantastic on the TV, compelling viewing for every cyclist, but at least one you have to go and see one for real. Stand by a key stretch of cobblestones road and watch the riders pass by just a metre or so in front of you. The ones we’ve just had, Tour of Flanders and

In early spring of 1975 you would never have thought cycling was three months away from the end of the Eddy Merckx era. He was just as dominant as he had been for the previous seven years. He was reigning world champion, and by this race, the Tour of Flanders on April 6th 1975.

This is the KAS team, an icon in Spanish cycling stuffed full of climbing stars. They made life hard for generations of grand tour contenders, and won quite often too. They also had a striking jersey design. It was yellow with blue sleeves for most of the team’s life, but blue

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It’s not in the race anymore, but the Muur van Geraardsbergen helped make the Tour of Flanders what it is. We still get to see it in other races, but it’s one you have to ride to really understand it. Often referred to simply as the Muur, the climb became part of the Tour of

This is Tom Simpson riding a Carlton Flyer bike to the silver medal in the 4000-metre individual pursuit at the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. (The plastic helmet cover was an early nod to improving aerodynamics). The Flyer was Carlton’s flagship, born in 1935 in response to

Geraint Thomas in the pink jersey of the 2023 Giro d’Italia, a race he would probably have won but for a storming time trial ride close to the end by Primoz Roglic. The pink jersey, or Maglia Rosa to give it its Italian title, denotes the leader of the race. It first appeared in

Barry Hoban has left the building. If that sounds flippant, it’s not meant to be. The fact is in British cycling, in the lives of his family and everyone who knew him, Barry’s passing has left an Elvis-sized hole. Barry first came into my life when I was young child, and I was

Barry Hoban - Our Obituary Yesterday Chris Sidwells wrote about Barry Hoban the man. Today he pays tribute to Barry Hoban the talented cyclist, looking back on his racing career. Barry Hoban, eyes on fire, chiselled legs pounding the pedals, every sinew straining. The arm in

The Tom Simpson Cycling Festival – new for 2025! To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Tom Simpson’s world championship win, we are expanding our annual Simpson Retro into the Tom Simpson Cycling Festival - an eight-day celebration from Sunday 7th September – Sunday 14th

Cycling Legends Podcast - Feed Zone 25-8 Cycling moves from Flanders via Roubaix to the Ardennes as the team pick over the bones of another breathless few weeks of racing. Plus: we look back at some of the tech from Paris-Roubaix; could it also be the end of the rear wheel as

This is Albert Price, winner of the first proper road race, as we would recognise them today on UK roads. The date was June 7th, 1942 and 34 riders started together to race from Llangollen in North Wales to Wolverhampton in the English Midlands. It was the first time a race like

“Every Dag has its day,” the unforgettable words of legendary TV commentator Phil Liggett as this man, Dag Otto Lauritzen crossed the finish line to win stage 14 of the 1987 Tour de France. Lauritzen, a former military parachutist who only took up cycling as rehab after injury,

Tomorrow is the 45th anniversary of a race that wouldn’t be allowed today. The media called it Neige-Bastogne-Neige, more properly Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Today’s UCI’s bad weather protocol would have stopped things before this photo of eventual winner, the one and only Bernard

We lost Barry Hoban this week, a British pioneer in the world’s biggest races. Holder still of some ‘best-British’ performances, including the only British man to get on the podium of a cobbled and a hilly monument with third in the 1969 Liège-Bastogne-Liège and third in

The spring classics are over, the grand tours are coming, and this is Giulio Cicconi amid the madness of the Mortirolo during the Giro d’Italia 2019. He’s wearing the king of the mountains jersey, the maglia azzura, a title he won with almost twice the points of the next rider.

In 1982, Steve Lovelace nearly died while chopping firewood with a friend in a remote field near his home in Wagoner, Oklahoma. Pinned to the ground and crushed by the weight of a tree slab, it took two hours for his friend and a local farmer to extricate him with a chainsaw.

We’ve gone for another snowy epic. This is Paris-Tours in 1921, from when the race was held on the first Sunday after Easter, and if Easter was early, Paris-Tours could be a bit chilly. The first Paris-Tour was held in September 1896, and was for amateurs. It wasn’t run again

This is Paris-Roubaix before they had to look for cobbled sectors, because when it was taken almost all the roads of Northern France were cobbled. Especially those serving the dense network of heavy industries around Valenciennes, Lens and Lille. Pretty tough-looking cobbles too,