CYCLING legend Sir Bradley Wiggins will embark on a six-date UK tour which comes to this region in November.

The tour will see Britain’s most decorated Olympian spend “an evening with” a live audience, sharing many tales from his highly decorated sporting career.

Tickets go on general sale on Friday, September 28 at 10am via myticket.co.uk.

One of the events will be staged at The Barbican in York on November 15.

Wiggins has written a number of books about his career – including ‘In Pursuit of Glory’and ‘In My Time’which detailed his success as a track cyclist at the Beijing Olympics and latterly the golden year of the 2012 London Olympics. Wiggins’ latest release ‘Icons’ takes the reader on an extraordinarily intimate journey through the sporting world.

The upcoming 2018 tour will see Wiggins take to the floor to talk about stories from the latest book, his impressively successful career and life as well as taking questions from the floor, with TV presenter Matt Barbet moderating at each show.

Cycling fans will also have an opportunity to get up close to some iconic Bradley Wiggins bikes and memorabilia which he’ll be bringing along to each show.

Wiggins made his name on the track amassing six world titles and three Olympic gold medals before focusing fully on the road. A podium place at the 2009 Tour de France demonstrated Wiggins’ Grand Tour potential and he earned a spell in the Maglia Rosa at the 2010 Giro d’Italia before taking his first UCI World Tour race win at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine.

A second Grand Tour podium followed at the 2011 Vuelta a Espana before Wiggins embarked on a near-perfect run in 2012 which saw him win four races on his way to the Tour de France yellow jersey.

His 2012 Olympics win on the streets of London cemented his position not just within his sport but as a household name in Britain. His easy charm in front of the press was legendary and he won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, voted for by the public, as cycling was smashing its way into the mainstream.

Then 2013 brought further success, including the Tour of Britain title, and in 2014 Wiggins added the rainbow jersey to his collection by winning the World Time Trial Championships.

In 2015, Wiggins signed a contract extension with Team Sky, before transferring to his newly found Team WIGGINS in order to prepare alongside other members of the British track endurance squad for the team pursuit at the 2016 Rio Olympics. On 7 June 2015, Wiggins broke the hour record (chronicled in his best selling book ‘My Hour’), riding 54.536km, surpassing the previous mark of 52.937km set just five weeks earlier.

The Summer of 2016 saw Wiggins win his fifth gold medal at the Rio Olympics in the team pursuit and his eighth Olympic medal overall, making him Britain’s most decorated Olympian ever and rounding off one of the most impressive sporting careers the nation has ever witnessed.

Announcing his retirement from professional cycling at the end of 2016, Wiggins said: “2016 is the end of the road for this chapter, onwards and upwards, ‘feet on the ground, head in the clouds’ kids from Kilburn don’t win Olympic Golds and Tour de Frances! They do now.”

2018 TOUR DATES:

Mon 12 November Manchester The Lowry Lyric Theatre

Tue 13 November London Kentish Town Forum

Wed 14 November Guildford G Live

Thu 15 November York The Barbican

Sat 17 November Cardiff St David’s Hall

Mon 19 November Nottingham Theatre Royal