Hindsight Glasses were a concept I hadn't seen before. It does happen, every now and again something appears in the cycling world that you haven't come across before. Sometimes there's a reason for that. Or they get a ban soon after launch. [...]
Despite its lower prestige, Scheldeprijs is in fact older than the Tour of Flanders. The first was in 1907, 6 years before De Ronde. The first editions would start and finish in Antwerp, with the finish being on the now demolished Zurenborg velodrome. [...]
We hear a lot of the French words in cycling. Traditionally, it was the language of the peloton although English has started to win over in recent years. It hasn't taken long to use the first French loan word either - peloton! Often its misspelling is a sign of who follows professional cycling year-round and who might only tune into ITV4 over the summer to watch Le Tour. [...]
