Ahead of Britain's first Tour de France winner?

Never.

Radio Times has picked Wiggo as their favourite, which just about seals what was already a done deal.

He can't lose, quite right too as nobody else's achievement was even on the same planet. I'm...

Wiggins for me, I can't see anyone else in with a shout.

Perversely I think the Armstrong business will have helped rather than hindered him as he is widely believed to be clean and a true winner...

Wait till it starts with a 6, which mine did earlier this month.

Both bikes sold as I decided to retire from active cycling, it's too hilly round here and I don't get the time to ride enough to...

The decline in Premier Calender events is merely a reflection in the massive decline of open road racing in the UK. I've lived in Pembrokeshire for eleven years and unless I've missed one there...

Wiggins is odds on favourite.

It doesn't matter who won it last year, 90% of the public wouldn't have a clue who won it one week after the event, let alone twelve months after.

I think it's a bit harsh to lay all the blame on BC. Road racing at grass roots level has been dying on it's arse for a number of years now, not least because cycling clubs (who organised these...

Can you record it, then make multiple copies and send one each to those of us who don't have Sky?

Thanks in advance.

You boys, you ain't a proper cyclist till you've mastered a Benelux rear mech with Huret friction shifters and a five speed block with straight cut teeth.

I did look at that, fizban. Was it any good?

Anyone into board games, have a scroll through this list. There are four cycle racing games, I might be tempted to try one and would love to know if anyone has.
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Or you could Google Shift Mate, they have have devices that fit on the rear mech to alter the pull ratio and let anything work with anything else.

No problems. A chainset is basically a generic bit of kit, anything works with everything else.

What did he do, put some in his petrol tank?

Had a nice letter back from Screwfix Direct this morning, thanking me for my interest but explaining they were not a dating agency.

Not a manufactured celebrity gushing PR crap either, but a genuine guy who gets pissed off like the rest of us and doesn't always manage to hide it - again like the rest of us.

Give me one Bradley...

When asked if he was hurt, Wiggins replied, "My side burns".

The answer to all crime is the threat of detection. There was little or none in the past, high profile nailings even after the riders have retired will be what makes people think twice.

Sportsmen dope in the belief they will never get caught. If harsh punishments alone were the answer the prisons would be empty and the gallows would never have been invented.

There have been long standing rumours that Simpson paid Rudi Altig to let him win the Worlds in 1965. And when Simpson won the London - Holyhead that same year he contested the sprint finish with...

I guess he can tell it's cleaner when he isn't dropped on a mountain stage by an 80 kilo sprinter who rides off while texting on his mobile and steadying the bars with his foot.

Had I been a pro I would not have wanted to dope and would have hated the culture.

But I know I would have done it in order to compete and I can understand why most riders succumbed. My beef with...

+1

I like it too.

Why shouldn't Armstrong be ridiculed? He ridiculed the sport for long enough.

I'm not disputing the benefits of PEDs in tennis or any other physical sport, just pointing out that Murray's comments on the relative skill levels were not a slur on our own.