The retirement of Mark Cavendish at the end of last season marked the end of an era for British cycling and the sport as a whole. The void left behind cannot be understated, as the Manxman had been one of the faces of the sport in the UK for well over a decade.
As more and more of the country’s ‘golden generation’ begin to hang up their wheels, with Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome both set to retire at the end of this season, there has been an emerging narrative that the sport may once again fade into obscurity in the UK.
