A top classics rider, Eddy Planckaert retired in 1991. He was around for a while then disappeared, leaving only rumours. In 2006...

Stage 14 of the 2025 Tour de France finishes in Superbagnères, a place the race doesn’t visit often, but when it does...

New cyclists maybe don’t know Les West, a top British rider in the 1960s and ‘70s who raced mostly in the UK....

King of six-day racing when six-day racing really mattered, Patrick Sercu talks about his team mate, rival and great friend, Eddy Merckx. 

The De Vlaemincks are Flemish cycling icons, cyclo-cross world champions, Roger once and Eric seven times. Roger won Paris-Roubaix four times, as...

Jacques Anquetil could turn a hopeless situation into a miraculous win. His unprecedented runs of victories in big races was proof of...

Ercole Baldini was the brightest star of his generation you probably never heard of. He was brilliant at his peak 60 years...

Briek Schotte was a granite link in the DNA running through Flemish cycling, a big winner with a very long career, both...

In the 1950s a bird-like climber fluttered up mountains as if on wings. They called him the ‘Angel of the Mountains’ and...

The story of an extraordinary British race with an extraordinary British winner. Rain lashes the bleak Pennine moors, dark clouds smother the...

With the Ghent Six-Day, or Zesdaagse Vlaandren-Gent as it’s called now, in a week here’s a quick skip through the history of...

The announcement by Sir Chris Hoy of his terminal cancer diagnosis has rocked cycling and the wider sports world to its foundation....

Madonna del Ghisallo is the name of the chapel at the summit of the Passo del Ghisallo, one of the landmarks of...

Three men have now achieved cycling’s Triple Crown. Eddy Merckx (1974), Stephen Roche (1987) and Tadej Pogačar (2024). Combining Grand Tour victory...

TI-Raleigh was cycling’s first Superteam; the first team of the modern era, a design template for the way teams race and are...

More than 50 years after his death in the 1967 Tour de France, Tom Simpson is without doubt still Britain’s best single-day...

The undisputed King of the Six-Days with a record 88 victories, a man so fast they called him the Flemish Arrow, Patrick...

In March 1971 a short but incredible cycling career that promised so much, and the life of a very special person was...

This story is from 2013, when the then 18 year-old 2020 Giro d’Italia winner showed me his favourite training route for a...