Cycling Weekly

No beer, cheers Tom Pidcock grimaces after taking a sip of the 6.6% Kwaremont on the podium of the cyclo-cross World Cup round at Namur, Belgium. Despite winning in just his second cross race of the season, Pidcock was not enamoured with the blonde b

Lidl-Trek are looking to new signing Tao Geoghegan Hart to contend for victory at the 2024 Tour de France. The 2020 Giro d’Italia winner ended a seven-year association with Ineos Grenadiers this year, joining the American team to become their new GC

I can’t say this too loudly or the Cycling Weekly overlords will cut this column completely, but Gravel (capital G) is coming. It’s interesting to look at the British race scene in the winter of 2023. On the women’s side, road racing is thriving. If

I still use a winter bike, an old carbon one which is nearly 20 years old. To be fair it has a decent spec on it. It was once my best bike. My best bikes do not see any winter as it is so expensive to replace parts these days. Debbie Jones My winter

“In the last couple of years, the hormone treatment has really tested me,” Allan Peiper says. Prostate cancer’s grip – sometimes loose, other times firm – on him is approaching its decade anniversary. “The radiotherapy has been really hard; chemother

EDWIG VAN Hooydonck said it first. After winning the Tour of Flanders aged just 22 in 1989, the Belgian pleaded with the press. “Please don’t call me the new Merckx,” he cried. Twenty-nine years later, it was the turn of Remco Evenepoel. After becomi

The tag applied to promising British talent in the past decade has mostly been ‘The Next Bradley Wiggins’. As Britain’s first Tour de France winner, Wiggins became a household name in 2012, and he admitted that “I felt like the most famous man in the

He’s won national titles on the track and road, and challenged for stage wins at the Tour de France, but there’s still one prize Fred Wright has his eye on. “It was always the Millennium Falcon,” he says when we ask him what Lego set he’s always lust

Hailing from one of cycling’s traditional heartlands, Denmark, it didn’t take Lego long to start making tiny toy bikes. The first Lego set to feature them was number 270 in 1958. It was made shortly after the introduction of the Lego system – the stu

Only a few years ago it was de rigueur for a keen cyclist to have a best bike for summer racing and a winter bike for getting the miles in from December onwards. When the weather turned, the typical club rider would store their lightweight carbon bik

At times, it is worth taking a step back and reflecting on those product categories which have been transformed in the past 10 years. Over on the tech side, bike computers and power meters are two prime examples: you can get a head unit with full col

Although there is one clear, outright winner, each of these jackets is unique and well suited to differing applications and budgets. I’ll run through each in turn on our way up to the overall winner of our grouptest. Pearl Izumi Pro Insulated jacket:

You probably recognise the Trek Ballista’s striking looks, made popular by pro riders Giulio Ciccone and Mads Pedersen – but how does this relatively bulky helmet fit when it comes to comfort? Most striking in terms of design is that the Ballista use

If you want your new year’s resolution to stick this time around, then mark your calendar for Sunday, 21 January 2024. If you make it to that date with your resolution to conquer more kilometres, lose more kilos or become more fluent at swearing in F

Sports psychologist Abigail Siu flags up the most common ways resolutions fall short ■ Ditch the fantasy goals: Setting goals that are straight out of the TdF won’t get you anywhere. Keep it achievable. ■ No all-or-nothing nonsense: Life happens and

At a physiological level, what happens to tendons and muscles when they are stretched? In the case of static stretching, the tissue is slowly elongated to tolerance and the position held at the greatest tolerated length. This induces only temporary c

As the new year rolls in, many cyclists embark on the quest for a healthier lifestyle, often through adopting new diets. But Dr Ruth Fairchild, reader in oral and public health nutrition at Cardiff Met University, suggests that January might be the w

If you want to be a better, stronger, faster rider in 2024, start off by reviewing 2023. I mean, how good were you really? Be honest, and don’t let that faint memory you have from this time last year of wanting to be a better rider in 2023 cloud your

Lying on your back, extend one leg straight out with the other bent at the hip and knee at a 90° angle. Then extend the bent leg into the air and repeat 10 times. Change sides and repeat when done. Half-kneel with your left hip and leg in front up ag

If you live in northern Europe and ride a bike for the pleasure of it, you’ll have noticed that we have Christmas at a very stupid time of year. We could have had it any time, really, since it’s not literally on the date that Christ was born, it’s ju

Riders prepare for a 10-mile scratch race at the wooden track at Bilston. Bilston in Wolverhampton we presume, as the advertising hoardings also feature references to nearby Tipton. Perhaps the most obvious feature is the lake in the middle of the tr

It’s impossible not to look at this bike and visualise Roger De Vlaeminck bent low over the bars, back perfectly flat, sideburns rakishly long, grinning and grimacing as he rides towards another impeccable Paris-Roubaix victory. “Una Gios è blu come

My wife came across this old photo which was taken during the winter of 1969/70, when a handful of us sneaked onto the nearly completed Meadowbank velodrome, built for the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. It was freezing, hence the woolly hat ov