February 2024

Cyclist Magazine

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Climb Every Mountain
Riding the fearsome ‘Circle of Death’ and ticking off all the famous climbs of the Pyrenees - Col d’Aubisque, Col du Soulor, Col du Tourmalet, Col d’Aspin, and Col de Peyresourde – is great achievement for any keen cyclist. So why stop there? Our Tra
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Welcome
If you’re a fan of professional cycling, there are a few places you should aim to be at least once in your life: beside the Arenberg Trench on the day of Paris-Roubaix; on Dutch Corner when the Tour de France visits Alpe d’Huez; and at the ’t Kuipke
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Defy On A Diet
As more of the Defy’s rivals incorporate features such as suspension units and top tube mounts that push them towards the gravel category, Giant is bucking the trend by continuing to position the Defy firmly as a road bike. ‘The new bike is even UCI-
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Cyclist
Editor Pete Muir Deputy Editor James Spender Art Director Rob Milton Production Editor Martin James Website Editor Matthew Loveridge Tech Editor Sam Challis Deputy Website Editor Will Strickson Features Writer Emma Cole Tech Writer Charlotte Head Edi
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New gear LEADOUT
£330, saddleback.co.uk Castelli says its new Fly Thermal jacket offers serious protection against the winter weather, and while it might look bulky, it weighs a scant 274g thanks to the brand’s new three-layer Fly fabric. ‘The internal ply is Gore-Te
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Type 136 fun
Is it a track bike? Is it a road bike? Is it an e-bike? The Lotus Type 136 is all these things. ‘We wanted to build a bike that’s as good as any other manual road bike but has the flexibility to adapt to your changing lifestyle and needs, offering as
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Me And My Book Leigh Timmis
I’m an around-the-world cyclist and world record holder for the fastest ride across Europe. My book, The Race Of Truth, is about my world record – cycling from Cabo do Roca, the westernmost point of Portugal, to Ufa at the edge of Siberia. It’s about
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What’s In Store For ’24?
There has been a lot of talk of Wout van Aert riding for the GC at the Giro d’Italia this year, but I suspect that it is just a rumour stemming from the assumption that if teammate Sepp Kuss can win the Vuelta then surely the Belgian swashbuckler can
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Taking over London
RideLondon is Britain’s biggest cycling event. Each year more than 75,000 cyclists descend on the capital to take part in either a 30, 60 or 100-mile closed road sportive that heads into the Essex countryside, or to just ride round the car-free roads
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An Italian Classic – Remastered
When self-confessed bike nerd Sami Al-Khayat was gifted a mysterious vintage frame just days before he was due to appear at handmade bicycle show Bespoked, he knew he had to do something special with it. Passed on to him by a friend, the old Rossin f
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Back for 2024
At the Cyclist Track Days, you can spend the whole day putting a wide range of top road bikes through their paces on traffic-free, purpose-built tracks. We have three dates and three venues lined up for 2024, and we’ll even throw in lunch and a coffe
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A Moment In Time Van Looy Is Upstaged By His Teammate
When the World Championships rolled into the Belgian city of Ronse in August 1963, the overwhelming favourite was Rik Van Looy. Known as the Emperor of Herentals after his home town, he was in the middle of a stellar career. He was the first rider to
Cyclist Magazine4 min readDiet & Nutrition
Team Players No1: The Team Chef
‘I’ll get up around six o’clock, which is two hours before the riders tuck into breakfast,’ says Owen Blandy, who has been team chef at EF Education-EasyPost since 2021, having previously played for Arsenal FC’s academy and studied to become a charte
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Pick ’n’ Mix
£61, leadoutgear.com Broken your New Year’s Resolution? Don’t worry, ours was to feature fewer top tube bags, but Lead Out’s Racelite just ticked too many boxes. It has a Dyneema outer and X-Pac inner material, both of which are lightweight, durable
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Big Ride: Utah Red Rock Rollin’
There is a type of man to whom time and lifestyle bestows a certain kind of hair. Matt has this hair, a wonderful snowy bulb offset by the deep tan of a life spent outdoors. Matt hands my bike up to Dave, who is stood on top of the Ford Excursion; Da
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Avv
Annemiek van Vleuten might write a book about her career one day, but perhaps the events would be better captured in a comic strip or a Netflix drama. The Dutch rider was, after all, the mistress of explosive all-action heroics. Her first Road Race W
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Classic Climbs Rocacorba
Thanks to its warm climate, laidback vibe and easy access to training roads, Girona in northeast Spain has become a magnet for pro cyclists. You can’t chuck a bread roll without hitting an Esteban Chaves, a Kasia Niewiadoma or a George Bennett. The c
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Six Days Of Ghent A Party With A Race
A little-known fact about Ghent in Belgium is that it has two cathedrals. The elder is St Baafskathedraal, which dates back to 932AD and is home to a 15th century masterpiece by brothers Jan and Hubert van Eyck entitled ‘The Adoration of the Mystic L
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Going Places
Considering that it is a mainly static pursuit, indoor training has come a long way in the past ten years or so. ‘Traditionally, indoor training was a necessary evil for committed cyclists to get in shape for spring,’ says Mattia Gomiero of Italian t
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Tested
If deputy editor James had a pound for every review word he’s written he wouldn’t need to keep writing reviews to pay the bills. As it is, he doesn’t, so you’re stuck with him. After a brief foray into crit racing, Matt armed himself with an OS map
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Atlas Mountain Race Another planet
Desert canyons, snow-capped mountains and lonely gravel roads. They are all part of the annual Atlas Mountain Race, a fixed-route, self-supported, single-stage bicycle race that covers 1,300km from Marrakech to Essaouira, taking in 21,140m of climbin
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Specialized Roubaix SL8
This is generation seven of the Specialized Roubaix, a platform that debuted in 2004. Great fact, I know, but in searching it out I came across something that I think really is interesting: a 2009 review of an S-Works Roubaix SL2. Its price? £5,499.9
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Ridley Falcn RS
The Ridley Falcn RS sits in the gap between the Belgian brand’s aero Noah Fast and superlight Helium SLX models. The idea, says Ridley, is that riders now don’t have to choose between an aero bike or a climbing bike, and can instead have a versatile
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Sram Apex XPLR AXS groupset
Sram Apex XPLR AXS is the most affordable 12-speed wireless electronic groupset yet from the US manufacturer. The entry-level tier contains features first found in the range-topping Red AXS groupset, so in many ways it is the ultimate example of tric
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Vittoria Corsa Pro Control
The last to arrive in the revamped Vittoria Corsa tyre range, the tubeless Corsa Pro Control takes the standard Corsa’s 320tpi cotton carcass with reinforced beads (to better play with sharp-edged tubeless rims) and adds a wider, thicker tread made f
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Sarto Raso TC
Sarto has been making bikes since 1959 as both a supplier for other brands and its own label, and its first carbon designs were fabricated almost two decades ago. Enrico Sarto says the brand was finally strong enough to go it alone in 2019, and now S
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Riders To Treasure
It’s that time when we like to look back at everything that has happened in the world of cycling over the past year, so among the accolades heaped on the peloton’s big names, I’d like to squeeze in a last round of awards for the protagonists of our s

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