Cillian Kelly
@cilliankelly
Professional cycling nerd. Not doing fuck all anymore
Get rid of the mountains. Tear them all down. Put them in the bin. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/no-more-al...
Someone I knew intimately died yesterday. But I didn’t really know them at all. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Nobody told me they changed the logo at some stage over the past 40 years. Don’t like it. Not happy.
As the Tour de France makes its way to Alpe d’Huez, a reminder of the most absurd thing anyone has ever made related to Alpe d’Huez. It took me one year of Tweeting every word of Phil Liggett’s commentary on the finale of the 1986 stage as the first word of all my Tweets. Enjoy!
Cyclists are the most unreliable narrators of their own lives. They need to be stopped. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Last week I did the 2,000th stage. This week I did the 1,000th and in the process, took a long hard look at myself. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Two stats - one is perfection. The other caused a bit of a stir. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
The 2,000th Tour de France stage. Who won it? When was it? Maybe it hasn’t happened yet? Maybe Pog will win it? Where am I? Who am I? All the answers are here. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Cyclists > Footballers Well, not exactly. Come on in and have a read. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Greg LeMond and the inherited victories. This is where my head wandered to this week. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Back when not racing between the Giro and the Tour was considered unorthodox
I am even more grumpy than usual in this one I think. Apologies. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Fausto Coppi was a fraud. A big fraudulent fraudster. Rewrite the history books. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
What is truth anyway? The battle of the stat nerds. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Why are cyclists so lazy these days? Tadej Pogacar is barely even a professional bike racer anymore. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
The marketing works. I ❤️ Decathlon and now I’m almost exactly like Paul Seixas.
Backpedalling, backpedalling, chim chim churooo open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
The youngest younger who ever younged. Setting the record straight. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Maiden voyage on the new bike. Really impressed by its lateral stiffness but also its compliance while remaining responsive and being comfortable and also maintaining an acceptable CdA.
I was tracking a UPS delivery and ended up at the 2005 Tour de France open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
I got a stat wrong mid-article and commentated on myself getting it wrong and dealing with the consequences. Think I’m losing my marbles. Good stat though. Really good. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Is this the worst headline you’ve seen all week? I sure hope so Jump in for a bit of a stat attack about teams who’ve won all five monuments. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...
Beyond Thrilling. The excitement of the Stat Attack. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...