The Journal

We catch up with Peredur ap Gwynedd Welsh rock guitarist from the renowned band Pendulum to delve into his love of cycling.

There is a photograph of me standing on the stage in Verona. I am bent over my bike almost as if I were praying. I’ll tell you what was going...

It is that time of year, the time of my favourite stage race, the Giro d’Italia – except that, for me, it is more than a bike race. Or rather,...

It’s 5.30am. I was awake at 3.00 as well. There is something unique about this day. Maybe my unconscious relates back to the first time I was speaker at this...

When does “lost” become “forgotten”? We lose generations within education or housing due to poor decisions or uncontrollable market forces; to wars and conflicts in countries across the world but...

La Planche des Belles Filles! The (Wooden) Board of the Beautiful Girls! Bonkers. This is not a place name. This is like Ashby-de-la-Zouch; it is in fact a loose and...

#BlackBritishLivesMatterinCycling BY DR MARLON MONCRIEFFE George Floyd’s cry of “I can’t breathe” in the midst of his suffocation and subsequent murder by a white policeman is symbolic of rupture experienced...

Cast your minds back to a simpler, albeit rather wetter, time in late September of last year. We’re in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and a ginger-bearded youth, round black studs in both...

When the team at The Road Book got in touch earlier this year to discuss providing the images for the 2019 edition, I was thrilled. The 2018 edition had struck...