2012 Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) has evidently elected the Tour of California in May as one of his main objectives for the season and still has aspirations of riding the Tour de France in support of his team mate and defending champion Chris Froome.

Discussing his plans for the season which is slowly getting under way with Sky Sports, Wiggins elaborated: "I want to perform well in the early season. I've got some good goals early season, building up to the Tour of California in May. Which is something I really want to do, to try and start performing well out there in America."

Wiggins will ride alongside Chris Froome in Milan-San Remo on March 23, and has said on numerous occasions that he wants to ride in the 2014 Tour de France when it starts in Yorkshire on July 5 in whatever role Team Sky ask of him.

"I want to be back at the Tour de France, to be back on the team in whatever capacity, to be alongside the defending champion in Chris," said Wiggins. "Having two British winners at the Tour de France starting in the UK is going to be quite an experience for us all."

Following his stellar season in 2012, in which he seemed to take a series of high-profile race wins along with the Tour win and an Olympic gold medal in the time trial almost at will Wiggins stumbled from one disappointment to the next in 2013. He took to the start at the Giro d'Italia in order to win the Italian Grand Tour, but withdrew from the race after crashing and suffering from a chest infection. Wiggins subsequently also missed the Tour de France due to a knee injury.

Wiggins returned to something resembling his best form the latter part of the season to win the Tour of Britain in September and claim a silver medal in the World Championships time trial behind Tony Martin.

The 2014 Tour of California is scheduled for May 11 to May 18.