Limited Numbered & Signed by our editor Ned Boulting (only 1005 available).
This was a season defined by individual brilliance.
Pogačar’s remarkable triple crown, Mark Cavendish’s record 35th Stage win, Grace Brown’s Golden farewell, 6 new speed records… The 7th edition of The Road Book is filled with jaw dropping moments.
With our unrivalled collection of data and acclaimed infographics, collected from every professional race across the Men and Women’s race calendar (and this year, the Olympics), our 900-page hardback, beautifully crafted in Britain, let’s you savour every second from the 2024 season.
Alongside a selection of engrossing essays and evocative love-letters from riders and journalists who live for cycling, this truly is the best way to relive the personal victories, broken records and Olympic shimmer.
With a special introduction by our Editor, Ned Boulting, this edition includes heart-filled and comprehensive recollections of the season by many illustrious names including:
Mark Cavendish
Ian Cleverly
Marlon Lee Moncreiffe
Philippe Auclair
…and other remarkable contributors.
Lovingly compiled, this simply is the ultimate chronicle of the remarkable 2024 season.
A book that deserves its place on any cycling fan’s shelves.
2024's collection of captivating essays is from a broad range of writers:
‘Blackmore!! Blackmore!! Blackmore!!’ by Marlon Lee Moncrieffe
A Monumental Challenge by Andy McGrath
Giro d’Italia: Are You Not Entertained? by Ian Cleverly
The Hills Belong to Everyone by Maria David
Paris, C’est Le Monde by Philippe Auclair
La France Profonde by Gareth Cartman
The Hand at the Back by Sadhbh O’Shea
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Mark Cavendish
The Manx Missile breaks down the completely innocuous and totally inconsequential events of the 3 rd of July, and definitely not at all about beating some totally unimportant and not groundbreaking record, or about his love for the Tour de France and his 35 stage victories there.
Kasia Niewiadoma
Discusses her first GC victory since 2019, what it took to break her streak of second places, and how she found that extra spurt of power to claw back pre- race favourite Demi Vollering’s advantage on the slopes of Alpe d’Huez to win the Tour de Frances Femmes avec Zwift by just 4 seconds...
Romain Bardet
After 11 years of riding the Tour, the iconic French rider finally took the yellow jersey for the first time on Stage 1 in a special team performance.
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Took his first professional win at the Giro, a year and four days after his brother had done the same. A touching piece, and a nod to the power of brotherly love.
Ian Cleverly
‘Giro d’Italia: Are you not entertained?’
Veteran cycling journalist Ian Cleverly, recounts his experience visiting the Giro d’Italia for the
first time this year.
Andy McGrath
'A Monumental Challenge’
The renowned Journalist, and editor of The Road Book 2011, returns with a fascinating distillation of the essence of one-day racing in this ode to the most prestigious of this breed: the Monuments.
Marlon Lee Moncrieffe
‘Blackmore!! Blackmore!! Blackmore!!’
With his academic background and unflinching eye for the clear and enduring racial injustices within the peloton, Marlon uses the backdrop of the Tour du Rwanda to reflect on the progress or otherwise towards greater equality of opportunity for black African cyclists, in a year in which Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay would make a giant leap in his personal status at the Tour de France.
Maria David
‘The Hills Belong to Everyone’
Maria Davidpens alove letter tothe hills of the FrenchRiviera, riding over them with a wide-eyed appreciation of the elite men who would bring the Tour de France to its thunderous conclusion on the same road.
Gareth Cartman
‘La France Profonde’
Cartman pens a touching piece on the complex and uniquely French ecosystem of races, unmatched and even overlooked by the rest of the world, but full of heart and steeped in low-key, decades-old meaning.
Philippe Auclair
‘Paris, C’est Le Monde’
Well known Parisian journalist and former contributor Philippe’s piece is a hymn of praise to both Olympic road races and their respective racers. It is a fitting tribute to a very special edition of theOlympic road race programme.
Sadhbh O’Shea
‘The Hand at the Back’
A view from the inside – her experience making the jump from veteran journalist with Velo, to press officer for Team Jayco AlUla and Liv AlUla Jayco.
Callum Devereux
Callum turns his considerable talent to reviewing several Grand Tour races, emulating Pogačar in completing the Giro-Tour double, alongside covering: the Tour Down Under, Paris-Nice, the Critérium du Dauphiné, Gent Wevelgem and Milan-Sanremo
2024 Editor
Sometimes events occur which only appear momentous in hindsight. At the time, they seem to be part of the normal flow of things. It is possible that this is what happened in 2024. These are not normal times.
From where you are sitting now, perhaps in the early winter of the year in question, reflecting on the last months and thinking ahead to what will come: have you realised what we witnessed? Perhaps you are reading these words many years after they were published, and you know already what I can’t: how it ends.
But the account of the year that follows might, I hope, take you back to that time when a suspicion that road racing had thrown up a champion to match Eddy Merckx graduated from hypothesis to simple matter of accounting; totting up the wins. What Tadej Pogačar would achieve in 10 months turned on its head the perceived wisdom built up over decades. Could the second coming of Merckx be real? Was he in fact already here?
