Sir Bradley Wiggins gets on his bike

Will Bradley Wiggins ride off into the sunset?

February 2017 Having announced his retirement from cycling last year, Sir Bradley Wiggins’s efforts on Channel 4’s The Jump lead him to take on another challenge: appearing on every British reality TV show in one year. Though this is dismissed as ‘impossible’ by the last person to attempt it, Edwina Currie, Wiggins manages a cameo on

Celebrity Big Brother, wins The Apprentice, feels thankful Bake Off is in its fallow year, comes third in Strictly and dominates MasterChef. As the end of the year approaches, only I’m a Celebrity… Get

Me Out of Here! remains. ITV raises the bar by sending the poisonous trifecta of Katie Hopkins, Richard Hammond and Keith Vaz into the jungle with him, and Wiggins quits.

March 2018 In search of another Herculean challenge, Wiggins squeezes his lithe frame into Jeremy Corbyn’s inner circle, joining the opposition leader as his personal cycling tsar. Having been promised the chance to launch a bike-based lobby group with Victoria Pendleton called The Wigs and Toris, Wiggins is soon disappointed. Two months in, all he seems to be doing is escorting Corbyn around on a heavy red tandem. ‘If we all work together, we can make incredible progress,’ says Corbyn, clearly not pedalling. ‘Come on, Brad.’

August 2020 Deserting politics when Corbyn refuses to call him ‘Sir’, a restless Wiggins decides to spend his twilight years in anonymity, and takes a job as a cycle courier in London. It’s a success, thanks to the fact he is faster than any other vehicle in the city, yet there is trouble when he is caught delivering unidentifiable parcels to hard-to-reach locations. ‘It’s just asthma medication,’ he says, when questioned about the packages.

‘If we all work together, we can make incredible progress,’ says Corbyn, clearly not pedalling