Editorial 
Are Cycling Kit Designers on Strike or What?(6)
It’s that time of year; the teams all have their riders signed and gathered at camp (or, “rosters filled” as our North American chums would say), and presentations to the press abound, giving us the chance to see the stars in their new kit for the first time.
We’ve brought together some of the more controversial, recently announced team kits, which are dividing opinion up and down the land, and asking the question – what are they thinking?
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Dimitri De Fauw(1)
It’s easy to write an obituary when one of your heroes dies – probably more so if you don’t know them well.
There’s just the legend, palmares, anecdotes and the sadness.
But I knew Dimitri De Fauw, not well, but I worked at maybe half-a-dozen six day races where he was riding.
RIP, VDB(4)
“RIP VDB” said the text from John Stollery, waiting for me, when I woke up; there were others too, from Dave and Stevie all expressing sadness – for all his faults, he was a hard man to dislike.
He was just 34, cause of death is cited as a ‘blood clot.’
Tom Copeland – An Introduction(0)
Here at VeloResults, we encourage you to submit your race results and stories to us, and young Tom Copeland recently did just that.
20 year old Tom is a second-year espoir, originally from Eastbourne in East Sussex (he calls it the Sunshine Coast!) and is now living and racing in France.
Tom loves to write in his spare time, and will be keeping us up-to-date as his season progresses, so to kick things off, we thought we’d introduce him to you now…
Welcome to the new VeloResults!(6)
Happy Birthday to us!
We find it hard to believe, but VeloResults is three years old this month, and so to celebrate, we’ve carried out a complete overhaul of the site, bringing the design more up-to-date, and changing the layout to make it much easier for you to find the articles you’re looking for, or discover something of interest whilst you’re just browsing.
For us though, one of the biggest things is that we’re now able to update the site from wherever in the world we happen to be – which means you’ll be reading the same timely updates that we’ve always tried to deliver, but we will be much less fraught in bringing them to you!
Viktor’s View – The Edinburgh Nocturne(9)
The Nocturne, Scottish cycling’s finest hour of the year? Or an unexciting, unprofessional procession?
You may have heard about our friend Viktor, we rely on him to voice the more traditional viewpoint, shall we say. Nevertheless, he’s a man who has hung over more barriers at more kermis’s and criteriums than tongue can tell; he got in touch with us today to voice a different opinion to the ones we’ve been hearing about the Elite Nocturne race in Edinburgh last Saturday evening.
Hugh McGuire(0)
Hugh McGuire, who has died suddenly of a heart attack aged 71, was the Glasgow-born Scot who became one of the top UK cyclists in the 1960s, representing both Scotland and the British Army. He took part with the best of GB riders in the Tour of Britain / Milk Race era, winning stages – and in so doing following the wheels of a slightly older top gun, Jimmy Savile. McGuire became noticed, and in 1962 and 1963, was selected to travel behind the Iron Curtain to participate in the annual Berlin-Warsaw-Prague road race, the co-called Peace Race designed by the Soviets to bring together the world’s top cyclists in reconciliation between Warsaw Pact countries and the West.
Memories of Jason(0)
It’s a year since Jason MacIntyre died; just like I can remember where I was when JFK was shot, I can remember receiving the call from James McCallum as I drove through Cramond.
Jason was a special rider, I loved to watch him in a time trial; to me he was poetry in motion.
I only got to know him well during the last couple of years of his life, but I felt very close to him, maybe I was partly trying to live my dreams through him?
Jocky Allen(0)
Life is strange, sometimes.
Yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine, we got round to talking about cycling, and with a far away look in his eyes, he reminisced about his first bike; “my maw pushed the boat out and bought me this beautiful red racer, it had white wall tyres and white transfers on the tubes – JB Allen.”
This morning, Gregor rang to tell me that ‘Jocky’ had died.
Grey Days(Comments Off)
It’s drizzling in Kirkcaldy at 06.15, mild, damp, depressing.
The 07.50 train to Edinburgh and no one speaks, not a word. I’d sooner be in the old Transit, with Terry Wogan prattling-on about sausages. The carriage rocks past the Forth Bridge approach road at 08.10 and like Talking Heads would say, the tailback is “same as it ever was”.
There won’t be much chat down there either. At least there’s a little daylight now, a few weeks ago at this time, it was “as black as the Earl o’ Hell’s waistcoat”, as my dad used to say.
Jason MacIntyre(0)
British 25 Mile Time Trial Champion, Jason Macintyre (Edge RT) died this afternoon, after being involved in a collision at 13.34 GMT with a Highland Council truck which is believed to have turned left across his path as it entered the council yard on the northern outskirts of Jason’s home town of Fort William.
The 34 year-old multiple Scottish champion was returning from a training run in the Spean Bridge area when the tragedy occured at a spot known locally as Carr’s corner on the A82 road.
Despite being taken by ambulance to Belford Hospital in the town, he was subsequently pronounced dead from his injuries.
Robert Millar – Let’s give the guy his dignity(0)
“Elusive cyclist is rediscovered as ‘queen of the mountains’ “- so says the headline in the Sunday paper, The Star? The News of the World? The Sport?
No, it’s our “quality-read” for the sabbath – Scotland on Sunday.
Whilst George Best drank himself to death, and as “Hurricane” Higgins trots down the same trail, many of the gentlemen of the press struggle to conceal their admiration for these ‘lads’.
The Landis Affair – Just An Opinion(0)
With the crucial ‘B’ sample test result due on Saturday, VeloResults thought we would take a look at some of the key rant-points in ‘L’affaire Landis’. We know it isn’t Scottish, but it’s the biggest cycling story on the planet so here goes….