Ah but the point is…
that "co-operative and PR friendly" tends to mean bland and boring with nothing new to say. If most bike journos were being really honest they would tell you that they’re not interested in what co-operative PR friendly bike riders tell them, and their readers aren’t either because it’s always exactly the same bland. boring, pap… off the record, now that’s a different story.
Lance, I’m sure earns more, and Hoy may have got 2 mill (and good luck to him) but Kellogs will pretty much own him for that. And as I say, that wholesome image only works in certain markets – they don’t make Brut 33 any more 😉
Wiggins has always been open and approachable to journalists as far as I know, and the reason journos tend to like him is that he tells it like he sees it, ditto Cavendish, that’s much better copy than the team/sponsor’s line.
As for Cav he didn’t have many warm words for BC in that Observer interview last month.