Cycling Plus

HIGHER POWER

In a traumatic 2020, we’ve all missed out on the things we love to do. For Cycling Plus, high up on that list is our annual pilgrimages to the mountains of Europe. We nominally call these trips ‘work’ but really it can only ever be a pleasure to call the asphalt of Alpe d’Huez and its ilk our office for the day. It’s hard to remember a summer that’s passed by without at least one day of fun in an Alpine or Pyrenean playground.

Photographer Michael Blann knows how we feel. As we spoke over Zoom in October, he was due to be at the Giro d’Italia, working on a shot of the Stelvio Pass as the race went by that he’d

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