• The Road Book 2025
  • The Road Book 2025
  • The Road Book 2025
  • The Road Book 2025
  • The Road Book 2025
  • The Road Book 2025
  • The Road Book 2025
  • The Road Book 2025
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The Road Book 2025

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This is indisputably the age of Pogačar. But 2025 was also the year when, with one significant exception, he started to run out of rivals. Whether that is a good thing is neither here nor there. It is simply reality.

The greatest rider of our time takes the yellow jersey and rainbow bands, again. A French Tour de France winner at last, and a Vuelta that almost collapsed. Another year of this most chaotically poetic sport is once again chronicled in painstaking detail.

With our unrivalled collection of data and acclaimed infographics, collected from every professional race across the Men and Women’s race calendar, our 900-page hardback, beautifully crafted in Britain, lets you savour every second from the 2025 season.

It’s not all about the numbers however, and we remain true to our aim of being a love-letter to this most beautiful of sports as we feature essays from riders, journalists and even comedians. A body of work which forms an irresistible ode to the 2025 road racing season.

With a special introduction by our Editor, Ned Boulting, this edition includes heart-filled and comprehensive recollections of the season by such illustrious figures as:
Alexei Sayle
Rachael Jary
Peter Cossins
Isaac del Toro
Owain Doull

... and many more.

Winner's Words

Some of the greatest cyclists of 2024 relive their monumental wins for us. These are exclusive pieces written by the cyclists themselves that you won't find anywhere else.

  • Isaac del Toro
  • Elisa Longo-Borghini
  • Cat Ferguson
  • SørenWærenskjold
Contributors

2025's collection of captivating essays is from a broad range of writers:

Alas, Poor Tadej! by Tom Cary

The Irresistible Rise to the Top by Rachel Jary

Strange Sport (How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bike) by Henrik Bassett

In the Heart of the Bunch by Owain Doull

Watching the Tour in the Hood by Alexei Sayle

Not Your Typical Vuelta a España by Robyn Davidson

Brave New Worlds by Peter Cossins
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    • 219 Races

    • 4 Winners Words

    • 8 Essays

    • Over 900 Pages

    2025 Contributors

    • Isaac del Toro

      The 2025 season was nothing short of remarkable for Isaac del Toro. The young Mexican won Milano-Torino, a slew of week-long stage races and Italian one-day events along side a stage at the Giro d’Italia. Del Toro also became the first Mexican to wear the maglia rosa, bearing its weight for 11 days with an assured confidence beyond his tender years.The heir to Tadej Pogačar’s throne is surprisingly humble, and his refreshingly honest piece will no doubt win him further throngs of supporters.

    • Elisa Longo-Borghini

      Italian national champion Elisa Longo Borghini has long been one of the most versatile and dependable riders in the women’s peloton. But, for a proud Italian growing up in a sport obsessed Piedmont family, nothing beats the feeling of winning the Giro d’Italia. This year she returned as defending champion and has brilliantly described just how special fulfilling her dream of back-to-back victories was.  

    • Cat Ferguson

      Young Yorkshirewoman Cat Ferguson is a superstar in the making. A four-time junior world champion on the road and the track, she decimated her age-group competition in 2024, before turning pro with Movistar. Halfway through her first season as a professional, she won her first World Tour race, appropriately enough on British soil. Cat talks us through that first taste of glory with elegant honesty.

    • Søren Wærenskjold

      Søren Wærenskjold, an affable and honest Norwegian riding for Uno-X Mobility began his career as a time trialist by reputation, twice winning the Norwegian national championships. But he is discovering that he also has a blistering turn of speed that has seen him win a clutch of bunch sprints in recent times. By far his biggest victory to date came about on the famous ‘Opening Weekend’, as he earned glory against the odds on the cobblestones of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

    • Alexei Sayle

      Watching the Tour in the Hood

      In a wonderful personal recollection, legendary alternative comedian Alexei Sayle remembers the lengths that he went to in order to indulge his Tour de France viewing habits during a summer spent trying to make it big in Hollywood. It is always a wonderful surprise to find a fellow Tour de France traveller in unexpected places.

    • Owain Doull

      In the Heart of the Bunch

      Owain has penned a diary of his racing year – his last in the pink of EF before moving on to another challenge – and he shares it with us in the pages of The Road Book 2025. Doull’s thoughtful approach as a rider is matched by his thoughtful words as a writer here.

    • Katy Madgwick

      Holier Than Wout

      Standing back in admiration to encapsulate all that Flemish Holy Week offered in terms of a spectacle, Katy Madgwick recalls how this year’s versions will stand up against the very best vintages.

    • Rachel Jary

      The Irresistible Rise to the Top

      Spurred on by the long-awaited re-introduction of the women’s Milan Sanremo, Rachel Jary has penned a ‘state of the cycling nation’ analysis of the women’s racing scene. Her conclusions, contained on these pages, constitute noteworthy pause for perspective along the invigorating journey that the sport has been on in recent years.

    • Peter Cossins

      Brave New Worlds

      The long-time Road Book contributor Peter Cossins chronicled for us a historic first African World Championships. An event which was mired in pre-race controversy but served up some of the season’s most spectacular racing.

    • Tom Cary

      Alas, Poor Tadej!

      In his debt essay for The Road Book, the Daily Telegraph’s Tom Cary examines the curious phenomenon of a maillot jaune with a little bit of Weltschmerz, and asks what this tells us about Pogačar’s psychological make-up and, more broadly, about the sport of road racing itself.

    • Henrik Bassett

      Strange Sport (How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bike)

      The Road Book’s very own Henrik Bassett has only just been introduced to the sport of road racing but has rapidly fallen in love with it. In this edition, Henrik recalls how he came to love road racing, and what he made of what he saw this year. Every fan will be able to identify with his words.

    • Robyn Davidson

      Not Your Typical Vuelta a España

      Debutant Road Book writer Robyn Davidson casts her eye back over a chaotic and controversial edition of the Vuelta a España to look for the hidden hipster detail that
      lay glittering just below the rather predictable surface of the results.
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    2025 Editor

    Ned Boulting

    2025 was still a month away when a single moment shaped the coming season. On a wintry road in Kerkplein, a Belgian postal worker, having parked her van at the side of the road, opened the door. There was no time for 2024’s double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel to react, and he ended up being blue-lighted to the Erasmus Hospital in Anderlecht, then to be transferred to Herentals where he was treated for injuries that included a fractured hand, rib and shoulder blade. The crash was witnessed by a local butcher who told Belgian daily Het Nieuwsblad: ‘Remco was hunched over, and it was clear the impact was severe. The van’s door was completely bent, and his bike was wrecked. Almost like they had to fold it up like a wheelchair. When I went over to check on him, he looked very pale.’

    It would be April before Evenepoel would race again. And though he produced some notable performances, his public and total capitulation in the Pyrenees during the second week of the Tour de France was part of a settled pattern in the men’s peloton. 2025 was the year in which Tadej Pogačar finally put to rest the notion that he could be challenged at Grand Tours. As Evenepoel fell away, so did Jonas Vingegaard discover that a chasm of ability had opened up between him and his greatest rival.

    2025 belonged, just as 2024 had ended, to Tadej Pogačar. It was a defining year in his ascendancy – one that saw him crest the summit of supremacy and, surprisingly for many, start to talk of an end to it all.