The Journal

Awake at 4.30. The last time this happened on the eve of a Tour was in 2003. My very first. That night we’d been housed near Les Invalides, not so...

Things can change quickly in sport, and indeed in life. If there is one thing that 2020 has taught us all, it is that everything we imagined was immutable, is...

The effect of lockdown on our lives appears, at least in part, to have messed with the natural order of things; and for the professional peloton, it has been no...

I write this as I sit and wait for a pizza to be brought to my table. I am in a suburb of Turin, where I have just finished commentating...

After four long months in which, like so many of us, I have scarcely left the house, or at least the streets immediately surrounding it, I have just flown back...

I’m occasionally puzzled by the amount of interest expressed in the mechanics of TV commentary on road racing. To me, it’s just my day job; one that I have been...

#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...

If you are a regular reader of Cycling Plus, you may have noticed that last month I wrote a dismissive column about e-Racing. This month I accepted a job commentating...

A lot of people thought I was finished. So did I, sometimes, on the hopeless days in 2015 when I needed 24 hours’ rest if I had just been out...

The world is in lockdown. Some countries are stricter than others though. Luckily my country of the Netherlands is basically built on bikes so we can ride outside. Alone. No...

Four weeks ago, on the morning of the lockdown, I decided to step away from Twitter. No one likes a flounce, and I hope that’s not how it was interpreted....

Described by the Telegraph as the ultimate love letter to road cycling, The Road Book is proud to present The Armchair Series, showcasing in their own words what our customers...