Bradley Wiggins will leave Team Sky happy with his final performance in black and blue, after finishing 18th at the 2015 Paris-Roubaix.
The 34-year-old was Sky's captain on Sunday in his last race for the British cycling team, as he attempted to fulfil a lifelong dream and claim a cobblestone by winning Paris-Roubaix.
The former Tour de France champion will leave Sky for his own outfit - Team Wiggins - as he prepares for the 2016 Olympic Games with the rest of Great Britain's team pursuit group.
Wiggins - who loved Paris-Roubaix so much as a kid that he used to ride up and back on a stretch of cobblestones in London - revelled in Sunday's one-day classic, especially when he surged with around 30 kilometres to go.
"When I attacked I was right up behind the motorbikes and it was like being 16 again, training in London near my house," he told Sky's website with a laugh.
"That was nice, and I'll be able to look back in years to come and say I was leading the race at one point."
Wiggins added: "No-one else seemed to be expecting it there and I got myself in a pretty good position.
"It was unfortunate though that I got lumbered with a few riders who didn't want to work and that meant it was chased down quite quickly."
For the majority of his professional career, Wiggins was a general classification contender, winning the Tour de France in 2012 and claiming podium finishes at the Vuelta a Espana and Le Tour prior to that success.
But in the past two years, Wiggins has focused on one-day classics in the hope he could win Paris-Roubaix and he has loved the challenge.
The Belgium-born British rider finished ninth in 2014 before this year's top-20 finish.
"I'm happy. I've had a good run, and being a classics rider has been like a new job for me over the last two years – it was a hobby driven by my passion," Wiggins said.
"Before the race I was trying really hard to not think about this being my last race for Team Sky. So many riders came up to me to wish me good luck and that was really nice.
"All these guys who you've been bashing heads with for years, never spoken to them, and they're coming up to congratulate me on my career. It's hard not to get emotional when that happens, but I got through it OK.
"I said at the start, I just wanted a clean run today, and I got that. I didn't have one puncture, one crash. I came through it pretty well and I was pleased to finish in the top 20."