Cycling is a great and necessary force in my life... but it can be brutal
speaking to one guy in Nottingham. He said his wife would really have loved the show, but she hadn’t made it as she had just died of cancer, so I just told him that she was right there with him.
With these kinds of shows,people see your emotions and I am looking forward to getting out there again. Cycling has always been my passion so to share my experiences, my journey and my own collection of memorabilia is fantastic.
What was it like going back to cover this year’s Tour de France as an expert commentator?
COVERING the Tour made me realise just how much I love it.
When you are competing there’s a lot of emotion taken up with it all in dealing with the event to cross the line. It’s actually hard to get excited at the end of a race, so going back to it without all the pressure and watching it as a fan was great.
You retired from racing in 2016 when you were 36. Would you ever be tempted to put on your racing kit again?
GOING back to the Tour and seeing some of those climbs brought back memories of just how hard it is. While people can make it look easy, it really isn’t, especially when you see guys getting taken out of the peloton, and some of crashes you witness.
It can be brutal. But it was a brilliant event and doing those interviews this year was something special.
Cycling is all that I have ever known, right back to my school days when I was focusing on riding rather than all the lessons.
Is family life now a big focus now you are a father-of-three?
I KNOW that it does mean a lot to other people that I won the Tour and Olympics in 2012, but I wouldn’t be a very good person if those were the things that were most important to me in my life.
BRADLEY Wiggins is at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, on September 20.