Lessons From the Tour de Suisse
Nine days come and gone, seven stage winners who have stood atop the podium in Switzerland. Nine days closer to the Tour de France and nine days worth of information about what we can expect to see in France in July.
Belgian nats: one for the climbers...or not?
Next weekend all Belgian pro's have to take the start in the Belgian national championships in La Roche. The race will be ridden on the hardest course in ages. But does that also mean the strongest...
Welcome To Nationals Week!
Time for some pretty jerseys to get handed out. For a comprehensive scoreboard, look no further than SuperTed's FSA DS Men's Big Board, and the Women's Big Board, where you can see what's come in...
Lessons From the Tour de Suisse
Nine days come and gone, seven stage winners who have stood atop the podium in Switzerland. Nine days closer to the Tour de France and nine days worth of information about what we can expect to see in France in July.
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Belgian nats: one for the climbers...or not?
Next weekend all Belgian pro's have to take the start in the Belgian national championships in La Roche. The race will be ridden on the hardest course in ages. But does that also mean the strongest...
Good enough for Cav ?
Last year was a dreadful year for Cav in France. Only 3 stagewins including a crushing performance on the Champs Elysée and not even close to winning the Green jersey. Sure his team won the Yellow...
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British Championships preview
The 2013 British National Cycling Championships are coming to Scotland this week. For the first time the Time Trial Championships will take place over the same weekend as the Road Race, moving from...
Le Tour: Time to Start Dropping F-Bombs
Today I give you a new term, the F-Bomb. No, not the one you used when you heard that the Sporting Chicken rolled out Pedro Delgado ("My start time is when?!") to rep the 100th maillot jaune. No,...
Le Tour de France 100: The Official Treasures
A truly tactile Tour experience from this book in a box.
First Time Surprises in Suisse
This year's Tour de Suisse was always going to be about the younger riders, but it has been a race of first time winners far more than ever expected.
Tour de France: Official 100th Anniversary Edition
Weighing in at a wrist-sapping two kilos Tour de France: Official 100th Anniversary Edition, by Serge Laget et al is not light, but it is the Tour history most fans will want to own.
Women's Cycling Thursday - links, vids & live!!!
want to watch and follow some great women's cycling this weekend? Nature Valley GP, Val di Sole MTB World Cup, Giro Trentino & UK crits - with links to other news, polemica and videos!
Notes From the France Desk
[What percentage of French people are mimes? A simple majority? NTTAWWT.] The Tour de France is what it is for one simple reason: France will always be the epicenter of cycling. Maybe the French...
Mountain Kings, by Giles Belbin
The mountains and men that have helped craft the legend of the Tour de France.
Vive le Tour!, by Nick Brownlee
It's Schott's Miscellany for cyclists. It's the Dummies Guide to Le Tour, the Bluffer's Guide to the Big Buckle, the Blagger's Guide to the Tour de France.
The Tour de France Miscellany, by John White
It's Schott's Miscellany for cyclists. It's the Dummies Guide to Le Tour, the Bluffer's Guide to the Big Buckle, the Blagger's Guide to the Tour de France.
Random Dauphiné afterthoughts
Chris Frooome really wants to be Wiggo 2.0Is anyone else having weird flashbacks to 2012? Haven't we all seen this before? The one wild and crazy difference between Wiggo -12 and Froome-13 is that...
Interview: Edward Pickering
Race Against Time author Edward Pickering talks about Graeme Obree, Chris Boardman and the Hour record.
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Albertina rides the London Nocturne
On Saturday night I raced in front of thousands of people, and it was awesome. For those not in the know, the IG London Nocturne is a massive deal in the UK cycling calendar. It’s an evening of...
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The Ventoux Night Session
This weekend Ricardo Ricco, the "Boys from St Etienne," and I participated in the Ventoux Night Session. Limited to just a few hundred entrants, the basic idea is to cycle up Mont Ventoux in...
The 101 on Tour 100 Books
Tour 100 Tour de France: Official 100th Anniversary Edition by Françoise & Serge Laget, Philippe Cazabam, and Gilles Montgermont, edited by Peter Cossins Quercus, 2013, 335 pages The...
Showcasing the pitfalls of women's pro cycling
Pro cyclist and author Kathryn Bertine is releasing a documentary that explores cycling's gross inequalities
Does the Tour de Suisse Still Matter? Just Maybe..
With the biggest Tour de France favorites strutting their stuff around France in the Critérium Dauphiné this week, you may writing off the Tour de Suisse this year. That would be a mistake.
Pain & positivity - an interview with Sharon Laws
Laws talks frankly about the horrific crash that derailed her 2013 plans, recovering from a broken back, and coming back to the peloton. Along the way we talk her Olympic non-selection, racing in South Africa, the Basque races and much more!
FSA DS: Don't Bogart Those Points, My Friend
I grew up not so much watching old movies but making vague mental notes of them so that when I was old enough to consider the possibility that they were awesome, I would know where to start. And...
Two days of Dennis
A fair number of people were talking about Dennis as one to look out for in the timetrial. He has shown form and his timetrial credentials are superb, both on the road as a U23 and on the track...
Excerpt: Bike!
Specialized Mike Sinyard took his love for handcrafted European bicycle components and brought it to California. Starting out as an importer of parts that were difficult to source, he soon...
What Does National Identity Mean to Cycling?
We at the Cafe like to joke with each other about our respective national identities a lot. It seems like a kind of universal guilty pleasure, one I personally honed to an annoying pitch during my...
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UCI fight: Cookson to take on McQuaid
Things just got interesting in Aigle: Brian Cookson (president of British Cycling) has announced he's standing for the UCI presidency against Pat McQuaid. See here: h...
