The Quiet Crisis in Pro Cycling – Why Burnout Is Ending Careers Early
There’s a conversation happening quietly in the corners of the peloton, in hotel hallways, in team buses, and in the minds of riders who don’t want to say it out loud yet: burnout is becoming one of the biggest dangers in modern cycling. Not crashes. Not injuries. Not contracts. Burnout. And the signs are everywhere if you know where to look. The moment that really hit me — the one that made me stop and think, hang on, something’s shifting here — was Simon Yates announcing h
The Bus - How One Moment of Chaos Became Cycling Folklore
The Tour de France is the biggest event in cycling, but it is much more than that. It is the biggest annual sporting event in the world, and just to wear the Maillot Jaune is usually regarded as the pinnacle of a cyclist’s career. In 2013 Gerry Ryan’s team Orica GreenEDGE lined up for its second attempt at the great race. This was shaping as a defining moment for the fledgling Australian squad. They had won some major one-day races and smaller tours in their first year, but t
The Bay Crits – How a Wild Idea Became an Australian Summer Icon
Some ideas arrive fully formed. Others take a bit of stubbornness, a bit of luck, and a bit of sheer bloody-mindedness. The Bay Cycling Classic — or the Bay Crits , as everyone came to call it — had all three. Back in 1988, I’d been thinking hard about how to bring cycling to the people. Not tucked away in industrial estates or hidden in country towns, but right into the heart of Melbourne’s summer holiday crowds. The beaches, the foreshore, the caravan parks — that’s where t
