While trying to figure out why thousands of people following my Vintage Road Cycling Stories (former PelotonTales; only the names has changed, became more specific, while the content remained the same) project on social media, if not for the… well… vintage road cycling stories; while I’m concerned about maybe I miscommunicated something very clamsily (after all, for a person, like me, living with autism, it’s quite possible),
it’s time to start preparing for the Monument season of the year.
I mentioned some weeks ago, that separating past and present (road cycling history and a current affairs of road cycling competitions) on my website and its subdomains might have been a failure, because as it turned out, the historical bit seemed to be weak content without the content referring to the actual racing events.
Now, because this will be my last road cycling season (as I never fail to point this out), and the first (and last) time to create a special site for the Monuments of the season only, I’ll probably return to the original dynamincs between content about past and present in this case. Not entirely, of course, because plenty of Monuments related articles are on the Vintage Road Cycling Stories blog, but pretty much tendentiously.
The basic idea is that all the five Monuments get their own main page, like
Milano-Sanremo
Ronde van Vlaanderen
Paris-Roubaix
Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Il Lombardia
And then all the other smaller posts built around them.
Of course, because the Monuments really fit into the “road cycling as cultural phenomenon” topic, I try to guide the visitors of the website to my Patreon.
Also, because the Spring Classics Season is the time period when significant number of cycling friends start searching for Tour de France or Giro d’Italia, I have to be prepared with Tour de France 2025 and Giro d’Italia 2025 projects quite well too. (As usual, Vuelta get far smaller attenion.)