It was not on the climb of the Madonna del Ghisallo, as in 1946, 47, 48 and 49, that Fausto Coppi won his fifth Tour of Lombardy. It was in a sprint, on the boards of the Vigorelli, beating a bunch of

As if it was meant to be, I finally managed to get my hands on the parts and tools needed to upgrade the cranks and chainring on my Wild. After some flurried Googling and general expert-bothering, I w

Brake hard, drop to second, wipe the wheel as you thrust forwards again and gather the second apex, run wide on exit and then gun this Riley Brooklands down the very short straight accompanied by what

As a cyclist appraising an unfamiliar bike, what are the first two things you do? You give the brakes a cursory squeeze, then pick it up. Weight really is the only proper performance metric that anyon

Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (

Ever heard of the BBC music show The Old Grey Whistle Test ? Ever wondered what the title meant? So the story goes, music execs would play early cuts of records to the grey-suited doormen on New York’