1. Dressed in red, white and green these riders are ready to deliver. Why the outfit?
2. Dressed in red and white, two riders make their way through the snow. Can you name them and the race?
That Was The Season That Was
3. Who finished second on the UCI rankings for men, and for women?
4. Name the non-World Tour riders that won men’s and women’s World Tour races (one day races and stage races overall, daily stages excluded)
5. Milan-Sanremo is the longest race on the World Tour calendar at 289km, it even gets a special dispensation to exceed the regulatory distance cap of 250km and it took six hours and 22 minutes to complete. Which World Tour race this year lasted longer?
6. Which rider was unbeaten in bunch sprints this year?
7. Name a race that Pogačar started but didn’t win.
8. What was the highest altitude reached in a World Tour race this season?
Bike Tech
9. This year all teams in the World Tour used tubeless or clincher tires. Which was the last team to make the switch?
10. What’s the UCI’s regulatory minimum weight for a road bike?
Business pages
11. How many sponsors feature on the Visma-Lease A Bike team jersey and shorts?
12. Which World Tour bike brand used to be a weapons manufacturer?
History
13. There are 18 teams in the men’s World Tour for 2026. Name the oldest and youngest teams in terms of when the squad was registered for its pro cycling debut.
14. A 19 year old French neo-pro impressed, especially in late season races. “Is he serious?” asks the headline cropped from L’Equipe above. It’s not Paul Seixas but from 1953. Can you name the rider?
15. Michele Dancelli died this month. In 1970 he ended the 17 year drought of home winners in Milan-Sanremo. A long wait for home fans but what is the record streak in a men’s Monument classic without a home winner?
Celebs
16. Name a cyclist, active or retired, whose wife, husband or partner is more famous than they are.
17. Name a rider who appears in a TV ad campaign for a company that is not their team sponsor.
Chief commissaire
18. What changed with the rules about sprinting this year?
19. Who was the first person to get a red card from UCI commissaires this year?
20. Can a rider get an energy gel from a team car of another team?
Nicknames
21. Biniam Girmay is sometimes called “Bini” but who used this name, in a friendly way, long before him?
22. What have Arnaud De Lie and Isaac del Toro got in common?
New jobs
23. This hotel belongs to a recently retired star of the sport, which one?
24. Marc Chavet’s voice booms out over the Tour de France as the official speaker. He is an MC at the October presentation and recently did Decathlon CMA CGM’s presentation. What other sport does he commentate on?
25. After forced retirement following a positive doping test that found he’d laced himself with a banned hormone, what business has Miguel Angel Lopez gone into now?
When they were young
26. A school classroom where two boys pose with shades and machine guns. But who is that making an entrance?
27. He shot to fame this year but who is this from his youth?
Picture round
28. Name the rider from the pictures above
29. Name the rider from the pictures above
30. Name the rider from the pictures above
Go for it
As always there’s a mix of trivia and intrigue. Plenty should defy search engine engines and half the point is to supply Q&A as talking points so look out for the follow-up answers.
If you want to have a go in the comments below then put your best answers. Readers can collectively crowdsource their way together. The most correct answers get wins a small prize.
Small print: the deadline is midday Euro Time on Tuesday 30 December. The most correct answers wins and if there’s a tie then a name gets picked at random. As ever people can copy off each other which spoils the point. But the peloton of readers here often enjoyably collaborate and together there’s a way to get plenty of answers.
And if you want to deploy an eleventh hour copy-paste job… well that’s cycling for you where you toil only for some wheelsucker to sprint past. Merry Christmas and happy holidays…