Cycling might not be forever, but I've been on one or two rides where it definitely felt like it.

A column that I now realise is more or less designed to annoy people. And honestly that's not what I set out to do when I write columns. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/dr-hutc...

Would it be too much to ask that Wout wins Paris-Roubaix and Rory wins the Masters?

Honestly can't remember the last time I saw someone finish on the podium of a Monument having used four different bikes from two different manufacturers.

Ah, the simple pleasure of cleaning a chain, drying it, re-lubing it, letting the lube set up, wiping it clean and only then thinking to put a chain-checker against it to see if it's too old for continued use.

The potential to solve the 'Pogacar problem', but only at the cost of a potentially even bigger problem.

In 30 minutes @doctorhutch.bsky.social and I will be live with your from Navarra for the GP Miguel Indurain. Live on TNT and streaming on HBO Max

GP Miguel Indurain on TNT with @josebeentv.bsky.social and me. It's a really good race, with an uphill / downhill finish that's like Milan San Remo but more so. Of course, given it's named after Indurain, really it ought to be 80km of flat time trial. I'd be OK with that.

More French Cup racing this afternoon, with me and John Beavan. 13.30 BST. Can Clement Venturini follow up last week's win? Can Lotto Intermarche win their 800th race? Join us and find out.

If you missed it, I can heartily recommend the last 20 km of Dwars door Vlaanderen.

I've just heard they're going to turn all the AI image generators off for next April 1st.

I didn't care about the Scott Mills story until it occurred to me that the misconduct in question might be dark and satanic.

Join José Been and me for Roue Tourangelle from 14.30 BST! Will Groenewegen win again? Will Coquard take the lead in the French Cup? These are questions you won't find the answers to in Flanders Field. But if you decide to watch that other race, you can always catch up with us later -- HBOMax

Last 5 km of E3 has been sensational fun. All the way to a really neat prank from MVDP in the last km.

I’m watching an episode of Black Books that I have never seen before. I don’t know how that’s possible.

Pedersen through for 4th -- stunning result considering how fast he came back from the injury.

I'm commentating on a bike race this afternoon with Jez Cox. It's the Classica Terres de l'Ebre in Catalonia. It would fit nicely into the bit of San Remo before the Cipressa as a double screen, or on catch up. TNT and Discovery+.

If you think motorbikes have too much influence on the racing these days, you badly need to see this. Milan-San Remo 1999, and every moto in the race all but sucks Pantani up the Cipressa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC8b...

On commentary for the GP de Denain with John Beavan from 1300 UK on TNT / D+. It's the mini-Roubaix -- 13 cobbles sectors, 6 of which are in Paris Roubaix in three weeks. It's the race where Matthew Brennan announced his arrival last season.

Every time I see the Tirreno Trident I'm reminded of the time I won a sword at a bike race. A genuine, razor-sharp sword, of the sort one might use for beheading medieval royalty.

He's reminding me of an overheard conversation in a bike shop. "What shorts are you using at the moment." "Well, I always wear at least three pairs of shorts, which seems like a lot." Yes. That does seem like a lot.

Average speed of Paris-Nice so far today... 55kph. Crosswind fun for all the family.

Watched a bit of a one-hit-wonders show on BBC last night. "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)" would be such a wonderfully creepy name for a Life 360-type tracking app.

UAE trying to work out how to fill the podium.

Activating emergency back-up race.

Feeling some sympathy for the TV commentators attempting to frantically foot-pump some suspense into men's Strade Bianche. Pogacar is deeply impressive, and I'm always here for that. But less would do.

But Strade Bianche only started a few years ago... oh. Damn kids.

Reminds me of the non-existent Tour de France stages I used to live-tweet on rest days to cause panic among those who thought they were missing something. "Roglic and Froome are up the road together -- they've got four minutes already!"

I've got a Ph.D. in International Law, and I'd explain it if I could.

Once rowed in an eight with eight people called James, and me.

In which I explain my theory that there are only two varieties of genuine bike race, and everything else is novelty click-bait. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/there-a...

“I don’t think we’re doing this echelon right.”

Ski mountaineering sounded epic. Turns out to be running up a flight of steps and skiing back down. It's a lot more helter-skelter adjacent than I expected.

One of my ambitions in life is to appeal for calm.

Today's major victory -- I noticed that my worst ever racing result is missing from ProCyclingStats. And as we all know, if it's not on ProCyclingStats, it never happened.

Tour of UAE stage 3 about to ignite. Up til now it's been live coverage of Silvan Dillier and Jonas Rickaert in an excellent 2-up break training for the classics, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

Lovely image. I always like how non-extreme Evenepoel's TT position is. His hands are only medium high, he can see where he's going, he's not super-low. He and the team have just done the details. (And had the time and budget to do so...) And a whole lot of horsepower doesn't do any harm either.

I can't believe that the freestyle ski big-air nomenclature for "going forwards" is simply "going forwards".

I like the honesty. How often do you have to say, "I'm looking forward to measuring myself against the best!" while quietly thinking, "Why couldn't the bastard stay on a training camp somewhere and let me stick a win in the picnic hamper?"

Hmm. Isaac del Toro wins the opening (uphill) sprint stage of the Tour of UAE. That would be worrying if you're anyone in the peloton who's not Isaac de Toro.

I can't be the only person who wonders how fast, for purposes of comparison, a bag of potatoes would be on a skeleton sled if you pushed it down the run.

The Olympic halfpipe coverage is doing great things for my 18-times tables.

Every story I read about a pro rider being disobliging with an autograph or a selfie reminds me of someone who complained long and loud about me on a forum for not signing an autograph at a Nat Champs. He asked while I was being held up at the start and the time keeper was saying, "Ten seconds..."

Ride London placed on 'indefinite pause' for financial and operational reasons. Not a huge surprise, but a shame all the same.

Enjoying the BBC snowboard Big Air coverage, where our hosts Ed and Tim are exploring the liminal space between commentary and Gogglebox.

Watching the slopestyle at the Olympics. Henceforth I'll be describing reversing the car into the driveway as, "coming in switch."

In sports aerodynamics news... Penis doping. Yes, seriously. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Bike racing, eh?