Aside from the streamers, the midnight revelry and the inevitable morning-after hangover, New Year’s does serve a few other purposes. For one thing it lets us stop and look back at all that’s happened since the planet passed through the same spot 12 months ago. In the world of cycling, few others have been to as many places and seen as much as our own Casey Gibson did in 2005.

A young Malay girl entertains the crowd with music at the start of a stage of the Tour of Langkawi.

Photo: Casey B. Gibson

Whether it was sweating his way through the jungles of Malaysia, cruising through the back roads of Georgia or waiting for the peloton in rural France, Gibson was there (racking up more frequent flyer miles than anyone on staff).

To mark the passage of another year, we offer this Casey Gibson retrospective on 2005. If the 24 images – including the above shot of CSC’s Brian Vandborg taking great delight in winning Stage 4 of the Tour de Georgia – aren’t enough, take a short side trip to Casey’s own website for a few more.

The San Dimas Stage race provided a great opportunity for crit photos, and Gord Fraser the perfect subject.

Photo: Casey B. Gibson

Happy New Year and thank you, Mr. Gibson. You had a great year and because of that, so did we. – Editor