Feargal McKay
@cycologies.com
Reviewing cycling books and writing about professional cycling's mythological past and the reality behind the stories told and retold by cycling's duff historians
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Feargal McKay
@cycologies.com
· Dec 7
Turns out a couple of paragraphs - about Nencini and Zoetemelk - got lost during one of CN's CMS upgrades. The full set of three articles - with the lost material reinstated - can be found below:
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This lad is only notorious!
Note the strange positioning of the dash. Notorious one foot-boxer. Not one-foot boxer? The mind boggles.
Note the strange positioning of the dash. Notorious one foot-boxer. Not one-foot boxer? The mind boggles.
February 10, 2026 at 3:57 PM
This lad is only notorious!
Note the strange positioning of the dash. Notorious one foot-boxer. Not one-foot boxer? The mind boggles.
Note the strange positioning of the dash. Notorious one foot-boxer. Not one-foot boxer? The mind boggles.
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![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
An AI Bradley Wiggins? Oh sweet Jesus...
'Today's a big day for me' – Bradley Wiggins launches AI coaching app
Tour de France winner one of six 'AI mentors' for The Coachsters
www.cyclingweekly.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
An AI Bradley Wiggins? Oh sweet Jesus...
Shock! Sixty-something male film critic doesn't like Wuthering Heights!
"misuses Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi but makes the most of Martin Clunes"
Martin Clunes!
"misuses Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi but makes the most of Martin Clunes"
Martin Clunes!
Wuthering Heights review: too hot, too greedy adaptation guarantees bad dreams in the night
Emerald Fennell’s take on Emily Brontë is an emotionally hollow, bodice-ripping misfire that misuses Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi but makes the most of Martin Clunes
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Shock! Sixty-something male film critic doesn't like Wuthering Heights!
"misuses Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi but makes the most of Martin Clunes"
Martin Clunes!
"misuses Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi but makes the most of Martin Clunes"
Martin Clunes!
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Add this one to the list! #ManxInternationalTT - and this is brilliant read by Curwen Clague - Bill features!
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Add this one to the list! #ManxInternationalTT - and this is brilliant read by Curwen Clague - Bill features!
Here's why this is important: traditional British cycling history has it that the rogue heroes in the breakaway BLRC invented mass-start racing in the UK, the race the NCU sanctioned in Brooklands in 1937 not really counting. But between Brooklands and the BLRC is a string of NCU-sanctioned races.
Missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle - proof the Bill and the Bicycle were involved in the first international cup race at Crystal Palace June 1937. Won by Jean Aerts.
February 9, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Here's why this is important: traditional British cycling history has it that the rogue heroes in the breakaway BLRC invented mass-start racing in the UK, the race the NCU sanctioned in Brooklands in 1937 not really counting. But between Brooklands and the BLRC is a string of NCU-sanctioned races.
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Missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle - proof the Bill and the Bicycle were involved in the first international cup race at Crystal Palace June 1937. Won by Jean Aerts.
February 9, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle - proof the Bill and the Bicycle were involved in the first international cup race at Crystal Palace June 1937. Won by Jean Aerts.
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Substack is making money from newsletters promoting “virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism”
One, NatSocToday has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80, and describes Hitler as “one of the greatest men of all time”.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
One, NatSocToday has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80, and describes Hitler as “one of the greatest men of all time”.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
February 7, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Substack is making money from newsletters promoting “virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism”
One, NatSocToday has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80, and describes Hitler as “one of the greatest men of all time”.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
One, NatSocToday has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80, and describes Hitler as “one of the greatest men of all time”.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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It'll never stop angering me, the number of times I've read "we don't know much about the real Hezekiah Moscow" in #AThousandBlows press coverage. I'm trying to trim 40k drafted words to fit in an 80k book. Yes, there are many mysteries still. But I've spent seven years with him. Just ask me?! 😂🤦🏻♀️
February 7, 2026 at 7:51 PM
It'll never stop angering me, the number of times I've read "we don't know much about the real Hezekiah Moscow" in #AThousandBlows press coverage. I'm trying to trim 40k drafted words to fit in an 80k book. Yes, there are many mysteries still. But I've spent seven years with him. Just ask me?! 😂🤦🏻♀️
George Dixon 🇨🇦 was the first Black world champion in any sport.
Nine years later, Major Taylor 🇺🇸 became the second.
Nine years later, Major Taylor 🇺🇸 became the second.
Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth! George Dixon (1870–1908) was a boxer known as "Little Chocolate". He was a world bantamweight champion, the first Black man, and the first Canadian to win a world boxing title. A #Halifax recreation centre is named for him. biographi.ca/en/bio/dixon... #BHM
February 7, 2026 at 4:43 PM
George Dixon 🇨🇦 was the first Black world champion in any sport.
Nine years later, Major Taylor 🇺🇸 became the second.
Nine years later, Major Taylor 🇺🇸 became the second.
Official Lance Armstrong biopic incoming ... maybe.
No studio, but producers, a writer, and a star attached.
No studio, but producers, a writer, and a star attached.
Austin Butler to Play Lance Armstrong in Biopic from Edward Berger, Scott Stuber
Oscar nominee Zach Baylin is writing the film about the famed cyclist.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Official Lance Armstrong biopic incoming ... maybe.
No studio, but producers, a writer, and a star attached.
No studio, but producers, a writer, and a star attached.
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Stumbled across this in the pages of The Bicycle. Ernie Mills and George Pilkington Mills, famous names in cycling lore. On the left is my Great Uncle - a Mills who’s been forgotten in time.
February 6, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Stumbled across this in the pages of The Bicycle. Ernie Mills and George Pilkington Mills, famous names in cycling lore. On the left is my Great Uncle - a Mills who’s been forgotten in time.
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With the future of the A379 / Slapton Line near Torcross in Devon uncertain following recent storm damage, here's a few other disappearing roads you may want to ride before its too late...
February 5, 2026 at 2:37 PM
With the future of the A379 / Slapton Line near Torcross in Devon uncertain following recent storm damage, here's a few other disappearing roads you may want to ride before its too late...
There was a time when people believed that Leonardo invented the bicycle, doodling the design in the margins of one of his codices.
Others claimed that it was an English invention, evidenced by a stained-glass windows in Stoke Poges.
Reader, they wuz wrong.
Others claimed that it was an English invention, evidenced by a stained-glass windows in Stoke Poges.
Reader, they wuz wrong.
February 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
There was a time when people believed that Leonardo invented the bicycle, doodling the design in the margins of one of his codices.
Others claimed that it was an English invention, evidenced by a stained-glass windows in Stoke Poges.
Reader, they wuz wrong.
Others claimed that it was an English invention, evidenced by a stained-glass windows in Stoke Poges.
Reader, they wuz wrong.
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The aforementioned bloke is film writer and director @charlesnewland.bsky.social, he just hadn't been on BlueSky for over a year so I didn't think to tag him. Also his name is quite big on the poster.
My bloke's new BFI-funded short drama Smooth The Edges should be heading to short film festivals later this year! I am very proud. It stars, and was written, directed, and produced by British Romani actors and filmmakers:
filmfreeway.com/SmoothTheEdges
filmfreeway.com/SmoothTheEdges
Smooth The Edges
A young woman, soon to be Gypsy bride, decides to take a stance against traditional norms and find herself a job much against the liking of her fiance. When ...
filmfreeway.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
The aforementioned bloke is film writer and director @charlesnewland.bsky.social, he just hadn't been on BlueSky for over a year so I didn't think to tag him. Also his name is quite big on the poster.
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Happy Birthday to suffragist and Irish revolutionary Constance Markievicz, depicted on this postcard as Joan of Arc. Did you know we have two collections with records documenting Markievicz?'s life?
See more here: findingaids.bc.edu/agents/peopl...
@bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
See more here: findingaids.bc.edu/agents/peopl...
@bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Happy Birthday to suffragist and Irish revolutionary Constance Markievicz, depicted on this postcard as Joan of Arc. Did you know we have two collections with records documenting Markievicz?'s life?
See more here: findingaids.bc.edu/agents/peopl...
@bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
See more here: findingaids.bc.edu/agents/peopl...
@bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
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@cycologies.com One foot. Makes a change from one leg.
February 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
@cycologies.com One foot. Makes a change from one leg.
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I've just published a new article on the development of the Southern French coast in the 1960s, looking at the creation of new resort towns to compete with the Spanish tourist boom
doi.org/10.1080/1755...
#skystorians 🗃️
doi.org/10.1080/1755...
#skystorians 🗃️
February 4, 2026 at 11:40 AM
I've just published a new article on the development of the Southern French coast in the 1960s, looking at the creation of new resort towns to compete with the Spanish tourist boom
doi.org/10.1080/1755...
#skystorians 🗃️
doi.org/10.1080/1755...
#skystorians 🗃️
I see Pat Lefever has entered his second childhood and his angry at the boy who tried to steal his date to the prom.
How sweet.
Cycling really needs another manchild, doesn't it?
How sweet.
Cycling really needs another manchild, doesn't it?
'I hate him' – Patrick Lefevere maintains grudge against Ralph Denk for pursuit of Remco Evenepoel, reveals that he contacted Juan Ayuso as possible replacement www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...
February 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
I see Pat Lefever has entered his second childhood and his angry at the boy who tried to steal his date to the prom.
How sweet.
Cycling really needs another manchild, doesn't it?
How sweet.
Cycling really needs another manchild, doesn't it?
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The launch party for Thunder in The Mountains seemed to go well. We were graced by the presence of @matoxley.bsky.social and @maxleonard.bsky.social , among other notable local dignitaries, and I made a cheesy tribute poster for my band of helpers.
February 2, 2026 at 12:18 PM
The launch party for Thunder in The Mountains seemed to go well. We were graced by the presence of @matoxley.bsky.social and @maxleonard.bsky.social , among other notable local dignitaries, and I made a cheesy tribute poster for my band of helpers.
Jason St At 'Em is being beaten by Melania!
Box Office: ‘Melania’ Heads for $8 Million Opening, the Best Showing in a Decade for a Doc
Melania Trump's new Amazon MGM documentary — the most expensive in history — is even beating out Jason Statham's new action for a third-place finish behind 'Send Help' and 'Iron Lung' after galvanizi...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Jason St At 'Em is being beaten by Melania!
I coulda been a professional cyclist, except that I'd lamp anyone who kept asking me if I was happy.
January 29, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I coulda been a professional cyclist, except that I'd lamp anyone who kept asking me if I was happy.
Midsomer Murders in danger of being cancelled?
Homicides in England and Wales at lowest level for nearly 50 years ft.trib.al/1hPsfle
Homicides in England and Wales at lowest level for nearly 50 years
Police record rise in shoplifting and big jump in robberies from business properties
ft.trib.al
January 29, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Midsomer Murders in danger of being cancelled?
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It's nice to be niche! 💁🏻♀️🥊
Been asked to give the keynote opening talk at the DAM and Collections Management for Cultural Heritage 2026 conference.
I will, of course, be chatting about Hezekiah Moscow. From archive to prime time! 📦⏩📺
More to come:
henrystewartconferences.com/events/dam-c...
Been asked to give the keynote opening talk at the DAM and Collections Management for Cultural Heritage 2026 conference.
I will, of course, be chatting about Hezekiah Moscow. From archive to prime time! 📦⏩📺
More to come:
henrystewartconferences.com/events/dam-c...
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 PM
It's nice to be niche! 💁🏻♀️🥊
Been asked to give the keynote opening talk at the DAM and Collections Management for Cultural Heritage 2026 conference.
I will, of course, be chatting about Hezekiah Moscow. From archive to prime time! 📦⏩📺
More to come:
henrystewartconferences.com/events/dam-c...
Been asked to give the keynote opening talk at the DAM and Collections Management for Cultural Heritage 2026 conference.
I will, of course, be chatting about Hezekiah Moscow. From archive to prime time! 📦⏩📺
More to come:
henrystewartconferences.com/events/dam-c...
It really is unfortunate how poor images are in the British Newspapers Archives.
This was a drawing done to illustrate an article on Shirley's 1906 London-Portsmouth-London record.
This was a drawing done to illustrate an article on Shirley's 1906 London-Portsmouth-London record.
January 28, 2026 at 7:50 PM
It really is unfortunate how poor images are in the British Newspapers Archives.
This was a drawing done to illustrate an article on Shirley's 1906 London-Portsmouth-London record.
This was a drawing done to illustrate an article on Shirley's 1906 London-Portsmouth-London record.