40 questions and dependable readers will know the drill. Some are straightforward, some will defeat Google and some of the solutions give us a sideways have a look at the game…
1. Who’s the robust rider above able to pulling (a sleigh) all day?
2. Wearing pink and white he makes his method by the snow. Which professional bicycle owner is that this?
3. Identify a professional bicycle owner born on 25 December?
That Was The 12 months That Was4. Cite two professional cyclists who had been married to one another in 2023?
5. Who modified groups this yr after they’d shot and killed a authorities minister’s cat?
6. Who sowed the seeds of Discord and performed a component in a group mate swapping squads mid-season?
7. Who gained a dash with just one foot clipped into the pedals?
8. Who was lanterne rouge within the Tour de France?
9. Who was lanterne rouge within the Tour de France Femmes?
10. What occurred on the place above?
The Bleak (North Hemisphere) Winter
11. Is cyclo-cross eligible for the winter Olympics?
12. Is there a set temperature for the UCI’s Excessive Climate Protocol to kick in if issues are chilly?
13. Many are driving indoors. What’s the world report for the longest single experience recorded on Zwift?
Geography
14. What number of hairpins are there between the foot of Alpe d’Huez and the common Tour de France end line?
15. Checklist three execs who share their title with a regional capital metropolis.
16. Identify a race known as off in 2023 due to snow or ice.
Chief Commissaire
17. Can a rider on one group assist a rider from one other group throughout a race, akin to giving them a drink or a spare wheel?
18. What determines the order of group automobiles within the race convoy in a Monument?
19. What’s the penalty for a “sticky bottle” throughout a grand tour?
20. A rider is main the mountains competitors in a stage race and reveals up with polka dot shorts, is that this allowed?
Away from the bike21. Which World Tour group supervisor has a big stamp assortment?
22. Identify a race the place two certified docs stood on the rostrum this yr?
23. Which Paris-Roubaix winner entered politics this yr?
History24. Which of the final two editions of the Tour de France have seen the general chief change on the ultimate day?
25. The Col de la Couillole is the ultimate climb of the 2024 Tour de France, when did it first characteristic within the Tour?
26. Which of the 5 Monuments didn’t begin as a newspaper publicity stunt?
27. Lotto have been sponsoring a Belgian professional biking squad because the Eighties. However which sponsor has the longest unbroken run within the World Tour?
Retirement
28. No it’s not an AI picture. Are you able to title the 2 ex-pros on the entrance?
29. Which retired rider – trace: a World Tour stage race winner – not too long ago spent a month jailed inside a fortress?
30. Identify a professional bicycle owner who turned extra well-known for his or her non-cycling achievements fairly than their sporting profession.
Business31. What’s the highest fee of earnings tax in Andorra?
32. Which World Tour group sponsor makes components to show farmed salmon pink?
33. Guimeng is a producer that has equipped groups over time with what?
34. Maria-Elizabeth Schaeffler-Thumann controls which group tools provider and Tour de France and Giro sponsor?
Pets
35. Whose cat is that this?
36. Which nationwide highway race champion retains a horse?
37. Who has a husky known as Houna?
Image spherical
38. Identify the rider steered above
39. Identify the rider steered above
40. Identify the rider steered above
The PrizeMade it to the tip? If you wish to have a go, publish your solutions within the feedback under. Readers can collectively crowdsource their method collectively. Essentially the most appropriate solutions get wins a small prize.
Small print: the deadline is noon Euro Time on Friday 29 December. Essentially the most appropriate solutions wins and if there’s a tie then a reputation will get picked at random. As ever folks can copy off one another which spoils the purpose however readers pleasant extra usually collaborate than argue so collectively there’s a option to get loads of solutions. And if you wish to deploy an eleventh hour copy-paste job… properly that’s biking the place you possibly can toil into the wind just for somebody wheelsucker to dash previous within the ending straight. Merry Christmas and Pleased holidays…
