STRIKING THE SUN
The 556-page literary epic exploring the cost of greatness.
News and Features
While football players get mandated timeouts to sip electrolytes, professional cyclists are expected to survive 35°C heat while dodging crashes at 50 km/h. As the UCI triggers extreme weather protocols in Corrèze, we break down why official hydration breaks will never happen in the WorldTour and how teams are bio-hacking the heat instead.
Richard Mille and Breitling just dropped their Tour de France luxury cash-in watches. We break down Breitling’s stunning Eddy Merckx tribute and relentlessly mock Richard Mille’s $1,000,000 Colnago collaboration that looks entirely like a plastic children’s toy.
The corporate spin cannot hide the empty conference halls. Eurobike attendance officially cratered by over 50% this year, forcing organizers into a desperate “transformation” that slides the historic cycling trade show into a biennial, every-two-years schedule.
Your ultimate guide to the 2026 Tour de France. We break down the brutal 21-stage route, the top GC favorites, and the essential historical stats.
The grand, heroic narrative of elite professional cycling is a heavily mediated corporate lie. In our latest deep dive into Chapters 6 and 7 of Striking the Sun, we strip away the romantic illusions of the peloton to expose the brutal, unglamorous reality of physical degradation, corporate hazing, and penny-pinching team management.
Dismantling the fragile performance of “becoming.” We dive deep into Chapter 5 of Striking the Sun to analyze the striking structural parallels between an amateur indie filmmaker playing the auteur and Dominic’s shaky early steps toward a professional cycling career.
This conclusion examines how English-language media constructs the very meaning of professional cycling. From Anglo-Saxon bias to historical romanticism, we explore how narratives are shaped—and how fans still find ways to resist them.
From the “legend” of the Ballon d’Alsace to the sepia-toned filters of modern broadcasts, cycling media is obsessed with its own past. Discover how the industry “invents tradition” to give modern races historical weight and meaning.