jyl

I had two questions, vaguely related, and thought I'd squeeze them into one post, because, you know, waste not want not.

First, what is happening with the David Millar film?

Second, what does the average World Tour pro do after he is done racing? Not what does David Millar specifically do, although I'm interested in that too, but the average pro?. My sense is they are not particularly highly paid, so something has to come next?

Red Tornado

Lots of these guys get jobs within the cycling "industry"; many with the teams. Some become directeur sportif's (Bobby Julich, Sean Yates, Viatchislav Ekimov, Wilfried Peeters), some team managers (Bjarne Riis, Patrick Lefevre, Marc Sargent, Jim Ochowicz), some take on a consultant/coaching/technical role within a team (Jens Voigt, Erik Zabel), a handful have started their own bike companies (Johan Museeuw, Eddy Merckx, Mauricio Fondriest) and some become rider agents (Baden Cooke). But that's a small percentage of a fairly large group.
Most riders either know or learn a trade other than cycling. Iban Mayo was trained as an electrician. Gianni Bugno learned to be a helicopter pilot when he retired.
A trend among the younger crop of riders is to take college classes (part-time of course) while racing.
Aside from the obvious A-list riders, the rest are still paid pretty well but not enough to get through the rest of life after cycling. I think the smart ones manage their earnings well enough to have an above-average living standard after cycling, but still need something additional to fall back on.

shinyandfree

I imagine the film got scrapped when David didn't make the Tour de France team