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  • 2025 Tour de France Preview

    It’s almost that time of year again. The 112th Tour de France commences July 5 in Lille. With the final team (INEOS Grenadiers) releasing its squad for this year’s edition, the start list is complete and it’s time to publish this piece. I’ll start by previewing each stage and picking a winner for each one,…

  • UAE Tour Preview

    The final race in the Middle East for 2025 is the highest-level. The The Seventh UAE Tour takes place from February 17-23. This race is a seven-stage WorldTour event, the second of 2025. The route is more or less the same every year, with four flat sprint stages (echelons possible), a flat time trial, an…

  • Tour Down Under Preview

    The first race of 2025 kicks off in Australia on Tuesday, January 21. This will be a brief preview because this race simply is not great. Why? South Australia does not exactly have big mountains to create an enthralling parcours (and the race has not utilized all of the hills available), the race isn’t very…

  • Pavel Sivakov Racing and Training Power Analysis 2024

    Pavel Sivakov is a professional cyclist riding for UAE Team Emirates, currently on a three-year contract that began in 2024 and will conclude at the end of 2026. Sivakov is one of Tadej Pogacar’s top domestiques and, in addition to a stellar performance at the Tour de France, was instrumental in Pogi’s fourth Il Lombardia…

  • 2025 Predictions and (Some Random) Hot Takes

    Tadej Pogacar will win seven Great Victories (Milano-Sanremo, Ronde van Vlaanderen, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Tour de France, Vuelta a Espana, World Championship Road Race, Il Lombardia) and 27 total races, thus surpassing his 2024 season as the greatest ever Included in this rampage will be five stages of the Tour and eight stages of the Vuelta Pogacar’s…

  • Primoz Roglic to Ride the Giro/Tour Double in 2025

    A few weeks ago, Red Bull – Bora -Hansgrohe announced that the OG Slovenian superstar would target the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France next year in what is likely to be his swan song as a top GC contender. So what to make of this? Well, my reaction is similar to when Tadej Pogacar…

  • A Half-Announcement

    This cycling off-season, less than two months old, is already drawing out our collective agony to a place that was almost unfathomable on October 12, when Tadej Pogacar mastered Il Lombardia for the fourth consecutive year and all was (mostly) well in the world. But since that day, there has been an impending sense of…

  • Remco Evenepoel 2025 Program

    Tour Down Under, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milano-Sanremo, E3 Saxo Classic, Ronde van Vlaanderen, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Criterium du Dauphine, Tour de France, Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec, Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal, World Championship Time Trial, World Championship Road Race, Il Lombardia It’s a loaded schedule, but with one Grand Tour, he has lots of chances for one-day races.…

  • Tadej Pogacar 2025 Program

    I’m going to offer a slightly different take on what I think Pogi should aim for next year. But I have already changed my mind significantly from when I tweeted just three days ago. The like to that post can be found here. Here’s what I now think he ought to do next year: Strade…

  • Reflecting on a Historic Year

    It’s been a while. I got pretty burnt out on this blog after the Tour and skipped the rest of the season. It was a special year, and hopefully I can recapture some of that in this essay. Some call it boring. Some call it farcical. But I think the majority of cycling fans call…