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Cycling Brands Ltd are extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Larry Hickmott - a stalwart of British Cycling who will be greatly missed by all. We knew Larry through his site VeloUK, through which he had been a huge supporter of our brands over the many years. He was always keen to amplify British Cycling's voices at every level - his impact on the sport domestically through his coverage is immeasurable, and our thoughts are with his family and loved ones.

With Milano-Sanremo taking place this weekend, it's only right that for today's #merckxmonday we look back at a few images from Eddy's record SEVEN victories in La Classicissima di Primavera! Eddy took home his 7 victories over a ten year span from 1966 as a youngster with Peugeot-Dunlop, to 1976 with the great Molteni-Campagnolo, demonstrating his long reign of the sheer dominance during the height of his career. Always a spectacle and one of our favourite one-day races here at Prendas, the first Monument race is known for unpredictability - and an intense finished built up over the long, flat course which precedes the final sprint. It's perhaps for this reason that Eddy was so successful, equally adept in a sprint as he was managing attacks throughout the race - and though many think of Milano-Sanremo as a lottery as to who ends up with a chance to win in those final metres, as the great Merckx once said: 'Have you ever heard of someone winning the lottery seven times?’ #eddymerckx #merckx

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LIMITED EDITION 2026 100 CLIMBS COLLECTION! We're back in 2026 for another special, limited edition collaboration with @100Climbs Simon Warren: author of the 100 Climbs guides to cycling's steepest & best rides across the world! This year to go along with a bold new jersey we've also got a collection of gilets, caps & socks - all with an extra discount for the pre-sale! Whether you love or loathe them, cycling is all about the climbs - and Simon Warren knows a thing or two about them, having ridden and written about the world's finest in his best-selling book series. We're delighted to be partnering with Simon on the creation of a new 100 Climbs collection, made in our AirSprint SIS silhouette, which we look forward to seeing on ascents across the UK! Featuring the 100 Climbs logo on the left chest and back and the 'Ride Them All' motif on the sleeve, this year's design is inspired by the undulations of great climbs. The AirSprint is made from quality technical materials which are not only lightweight but also resistant to wear and tear, ensuring long-lasting performance and retaining of its shape, ride after ride. The collection will be on sale until 23rd March - with delivery expected in late May. #100climbs #prendas #Ciclismo

For this week's #merckxmonday we've got a hattrick of photos of Eddy's hattrick of victories at Paris-Nice to celebrate the race's return this Sunday! Nicknamed 'The Race to the Sun' thanks to its route which traditionally begins in the chilly North and heads down to the much balmier Spring sunshine on the South coast. Eddy won the race three times in a row from 1969-71, twice with Faema and once at Molteni - but it's Irishman and favourite at Prendas Sean Kelly who holds the most victories with SEVEN consecutive titles in the 1980s. Eddy's first victory in 1969 announced his arrival at this wonderful spectacle, with two rivals for the top, Raymond Poulidor and Jacques Anquetil settling for second and third respectively. Poulidor's unfortunate nickname as the 'eternal second' remained until 1972 when he ended the Cannibal's streak by winning the final time trial and narrowly finishing ahead of Merckx. Who's watching this weekend?! #eddymerckx #parisnice #poulidor #anquetil #faema #molteni

Barry Hoban, Paris-Nice 1970.

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The return of the cobbles in 2026! The Belgian cycling season kicks off this weekend with the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, so what better way to celebrate the return of the cobbled classics than with some shots of Eddy's victories there for this week's #merckxmonday ! For those who haven't heard of the race, first let's start with its somewhat complicated naming history: The race has historically been named after the newspaper sponsoring the event – Het Volk from 1947 to 2009, and Het Nieuwsblad from 2009 to present. But it was also first known as the Omloop Van Vlaanderen, then Omloop Het Volk after they were forced to change the name due to being too similar to the 'rival' race Ronde Van Vlaanderen - settling finally on Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Riding on home soil, Eddy won the race twice in 1971 & 1973 whilst with Molteni, the latter of which he famously held off the attacks of fellow Belgian rider Roger de Vlaeminck to take victory (first picture). Due to the race's position so early in the calendar year it's often characterised by wintery conditions, and in fact, the 1971 race was postponed due to snow and run three weeks later. We're looking forward to some chaos on the cobbles this weekend! Who's going to be watching?!

The M.I.C. Moneymakers de Gribaldy were a Belgian cycling team active during the 1970s - featuring riders like José Sersté, Eric Leman, and most famously the great Herman Van Springel - pictured in these shots. It was in the 1974 version of this jersey - in splendid orange and black hoops, that Herman simultaneously won and lost, the now defunct Bordeaux-Paris race, doing so in famous fashion, as Herbie Sykes wrote for us: 'If ever a race characterized a rider – and his career – it was the 1974 edition of the Derby. Herman won it by fifteen minutes, as was his wont. Then, however, it went pear-shaped in the best Bordeaux-Paris tradition. It transpired he’d gone off course, and as a consequence ridden seven extra kilometres. He’d ridden 600 instead of the allotted 593, and a certain Jacques Cadiou had gotten wind of it. He was simultaneously a world-class pedant and sports director of second-placed Régis Délepine, and as he saw it Van Springel had committed a clear infraction of the rules. Cadiou and his team, Merlin Plage-Shimano-Flandria, were about as much good as an ashtray on a derny. As such, they hadn’t won a thing all season, and he wasn’t much interested in fair play. He opted instead for good old-fashioned sophistry and lodged a complaint. Thus Herman Van Springel was disqualified for having ridden too far, but Délepine, of all people, intervened on his behalf… He informed the jury that he’d no interest in a pyrrhic victory, and told Cadiou to desist from being such a mealy-mouthed, pedantic cry-baby. In effect, he was appealing against himself (a first even for a sport as daft as cycling) and when the dust settled Herman was invited to share the win with him. Our hero duly accepted, and that explains the legend of the 1974 Bordeaux-Paris.'

We're continuing our #rivals series for this week's #merckxmonday with a look back at the 1975 #tourdefrance - where Bernard Thévenet was able to break Eddy's reign of dominance with a victory that marked a turning point for cycling. With five victories in the last six tours, it was becoming an inevitability - but that season had begun differently. By the time the Tour reached the Alps, Merckx was already vulnerable. A fractured jaw earlier in the season, lingering illness, and the sheer exhaustion of years spent at the top had begun to show. Thévenet's moment came on the famous climb to Pra-Loup. Pra-Loup wasn’t the longest or steepest climb in the Tour, but it was deceptive — an irregular ascent at altitude, where pacing mattered more than power. Merckx attacked on the descent of the Col d’Allos, building a lead of almost a minute over the rest, but Thévenet had bided his time throughout the race and would not relent - struggling to catch Merckx but instead waiting to make a move on the final climb. It proved to be the right moment - up ahead Merckx was tiring, and amazingly Thévenet caught and passed the Cannibal before the summit. This time the response never came and Thévenet eventually took a 1:56 gap on the race leader. It was the last time Merckx would wear the Maillot Jaune as Thévenet defended his lead all the way to Paris, sealing the first of his two Tour de France wins.

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For this week's #merckxmonday we're looking at another rival of Eddy's from his heyday - the late, great Felice Gimondi. Gimondi was the next Italian cycling superstar after Fausto Coppi, but, like many of Merckx's rivals over the years, was kept from winning as much as he could've due to Eddy's sheer dominance. In fact Merckx won many races with Gimondi runner up: the 1972 Tour de France, the 1970 and 1973 Giro d'Italia, the World Championships, the Tour of Flanders and Milan-San Remo. Yet despite the tough competition, he was still able to build up a respectable palmarès himself, becoming the second-ever rider to have won all three Grand Tours after Jacques Anquetil. Despite being respected rivals, they became good friends later in life, and upon Gimondi's death in 2019, Merckx expressed deep sorrow, calling him one of the greatest ever and "the opponent of my life". Enjoy these shots of the two riders from over the years!

With the Tour Down Under starting today, it's a wonderful excuse for us to pay homage to an Aussie cycling legend, and wearer of some of our favourite jerseys over the years, Phil Anderson! Skippy's career spanned some of cycling's biggest teams, starting out at the fabled Peugeot-Michelin and ending at Motorola. He gave us some iconic looks over the years, namely due to his love of bold sunglasses - but he's best known as the first non-European to ever wear the yellow jersey. Enjoy the Tour Down Under! 🦘🇦🇺

"You know when you are in the peloton and you come near the Ventoux, nobody's speaking anymore, you can hear a fly, because it's always very quiet because everybody's afraid about the Ventoux" For this week's #merckxmonday we're looking at one of Eddy's most famous ever climbs - on the great Ventoux. It's well known in cycling as one of the most intimidating and difficult of climbs, not least during the Tour de France where temperatures can soar and add yet another challenge to an already physically gruelling stage. Great riders like Tom Simpson tragically losing his life on the climb - it's not to be taken lightly. But Eddy achieved a legendary, hard-fought victory on Mont Ventoux during Stage 14 of the 1970 Tour de France. It was the first time the race had returned to the Bald Mountain since Simpson's death. Eddy, riding for Faema-Faemino in his final season before Molteni, pushed himself to breaking point to take the stage as well as reclaim the lead in the Mountains and Points classifications. Despite winning, The Cannibal collapsed at the summit from extreme exhaustion in sweltering heat, requiring oxygen and stating, "No, it's impossible," after his dominant, attacking performance. Eddy would return to Ventoux in 1972, but the outcome would be different - battling his rival Ocaña throughout the stage and defending against various attacks from the Spaniard, it was instead Bernard Thevenet who was able to capitalise after the peloton caught the two leaders, attacking to victory in the later moments of the stage.

For this week's #merckxmonday we're looking at shots of Eddy in his early days at Peugeot - because we've got another spectacular Peugeot jersey now available as part of our pre-sale from the Peugeot-Esso days, head to the website to check out the pre-sale collection with £20 off now! prendas.co.uk/collections/pr… Peugeot's involvement in cycling began in the early 1900s, making it one of the oldest and most successful teams in the sport's history. Esso took over from BP as the team's second sponsor in 1976 and remained until 1981, when Shell became the new co-sponsor. Eddy was with the team earlier on from 1966-67, winning Milan-Sanremo both years and the World Champs in '67 too. It was arguably his first real announcement on the world stage, riding alongside British great Tom Simpson - with whom he battled during Paris-Nice in 1967.

Happy New Year! This #merckxmonday Eddy perfectly sums up how the first day back to work after Christmas has us feeling! Merckx famously said: "Cyclists live with pain, if you can't handle it you will win nothing." He was certainly no stranger to it, with a number of high profile crashes throughout his career - including one in 1969 during an Omnium event in Blois, where a Derny pacer crashed ahead of Merckx, tragically dying, and knocking Eddy unconscious in the disaster. Merckx spent four days in hospital and recovered, but his cycling was never the same after the injury, twisting his hips and back out of alignment which would cause him constant discomfort on the bike from then on - sometimes his leg would lock in pain during races. So if this week is feeling tough, remember Eddy's words of wisdom to keep you going!

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