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Shouldering the hopes of a win-starved nation, can Paul Seixas bring home the yellow jersey at the Tour de France?Meet the 19-year-old debutant already tipped as a future winner
By Tom Davidson Published
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3D-printed blip mounts and 160mm cranks: Tom Pidcock’s Pinarello Bolide F time trial bike primed and ready to roll ahead of the Tour de France TTTA 60T chainring, 28mm tyres, and a host of 3D-printed goodies headline the Yorkshireman's go-faster machine
By Aaron Borrill Published
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Forget the Tour - the toughest ride in France doesn't even have a winnerParis-Brest-Paris has been humbling cyclists since 1891. Your shot at it starts now.
By Lisa Charlebois Published
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'It's the same tech for half the price': how Chinese manufacturers are breaking the mould on value and performanceAs emerging bike brands offer ever more performance at far beneath the price tags of western rivals, the question arises: should your next bike be Chinese?
By Rosael Torres-Davis Published
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'I felt unwelcome in cycling – but now I know what needs to change': one rider's manifesto for getting everyone onto bikesReflecting on her first few years in the sport, Ellie Donnell challenges cycling to evolve, open up and become more welcoming to all
By Ellie Donnell Published
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Ridden by a teammate of Eddy Merckx, the Molteni orange paint is inextricably linked to The Cannibal and his teamJoseph Bruyère's bike is in immaculate condition, but exactly who built it remains a mystery
By Simon Fellows Published
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'Other innovations showed early promise but never took off' – Cycling tech that almost changed the sportFrom oval chainrings to four-spoke wheels, these are the innovations that promised revolution but ultimately faded away
By James Shrubsall Published
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"Riding in the WorldTour is a big step up physically": Oliver Peace takes us through his trainingPicnic Post NL's young Yorkshireman takes us through a training week as he prepared for short, early season stage races
By Chris Marshall-Bell Published
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Back to their Roots: Goodyear gets serious about cycling performance with the fastest road bike tyre they've ever madeSponsor Content Created With Goodyear
Beyond the blimp - The third largest tyre manufacturer in the world is engineering a cycling comeback
By Jamie Williams Published
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‘I couldn’t control the cancer, I could control doing my job well’: TV’s Rebecca Charlton on how cycling became her escape during the fight of her lifeThe journalist and commentator was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in July 2025, but says the cycling community helped her to stay positive
By Michelle Arthurs-Brennan Published
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'I have only love for the haters': Carlton Kirby opens up about his opinion-dividing career in commentaryThe TNT Sports commentator on his ‘Partridge’ years and surviving the wrath of those who don't have any time for his Kirbyisms
By Felix Lowe Published
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Coffee outside: a celebration of the bike community and coffee, and how to make the best coffee outsideA dive into the metaphorical mug of the outdoor coffee brewing community. Plus brewing tips and some history
By Tyler Boucher Published
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Out of this valley rise multiple leg-sapping climbs - Here's how to ride the best of themClimb-addicted masochist Simon Warren tackles nine of Calderdale's most punishing ascents, grinding from the industrial valley floor to high gritstone ridges
By Simon Warren Published
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America's best bike riding might not be in Colorado or California — it's in the CarolinasThe Blue Ridge Mountains offer everything cyclists travel to Europe for: long climbs, empty roads, breathtaking scenery, and a culture built around the bicycle
By Michael Venutolo-Mantovani Published
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"Training adaptation thrives on challenge, but only when recovery keeps pace"; how everyday stressors can affect your ridingTraining, racing, work stress, travel and lack of sleep all require your body to adjust; here's how to deal with it
By Rob Kemp Published
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'Just to fill up a bus costs a fortune' – What does it cost to run a successful WorldTour cycling team?The best-funded men's teams are spending twice that of the mid-range ones. Where do all those millions go, and has the gap grown too large?
By Chris Marshall-Bell Published
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When should you replace your cleats and pedals?Cleats are relatively inexpensive, easily replaceable and never in short supply. So why do so many riders neglect proactively replacing them?
By Greg Kaplan Published
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From Anquetil to Vollering, here are all the riders who have won the Giro, Tour and VueltaJonas Vingegaard becomes the eighth male rider to have won all three Grand Tours in their career, while Demi Vollering is the second woman
By Simon Richardson Last updated
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Free speed isn’t free: a mid-ride meditation on the few freebies for going fasterCan you save watts without spending a fortune?
By Greg Kaplan Published
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'The bad times will pass, and you can get through them': meet the woman cycling 900 miles between football stadiums in memory of her dadRachel Anderson hadn't ridden a bike as an adult before setting off on the challenge
By Meg Elliot Published
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Is this the world's remotest Strava KOM? I smuggled a folding bike onto a dinghy just to get thereA quest to ride a rarely used climb on a tiny island in the Atlantic, lead one rider to an abandoned archipelago, armed with a crafty stowaway
By Matt Sparkes Last updated
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Full of unusual quirks, this Carlton is what a specialist TT bike used to look like in the 1970sEditor of Cycling magazine in the 1970s, Ken Evans had this beautiful bike made so he could indulge his passion
By Simon Fellows Published
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Resistance training can boost your riding power - but do you need to do it in the gym?Strength training can bring big fitness gains, here's how you can do it on your bike
By Hannah Reynolds Published
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'Such carnage and a ridiculous adventure' – Maddy Nutt finished second at Unbound XL after 27 hours of racing, and then went viralThe 28-year-old battled through thunderstorms and peanut butter mud to finish second in the ultra race
By Meg Elliot Published
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Freed from the July calendar crush, the women's Giro is stepping into the spotlightThe race's new date frees it from a clash with the men's Tour de France and allows riders the chance to go for the double
By James Shrubsall Published
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417 watts for 24 hours: The brutal reality of powering a home by bikeFit cyclists can put out serious watts – so why do we let it go to waste? Cycling Weekly crunches the numbers and attempts to boil a kettle with pedal power
By Sarah Haselwood Published
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Saunas, endurance blocks and racing track: How sprinter Ethan Vernon trains every weekFresh from a stage win at the Tour Down Under, the sprinter explains how he prepared for the scorching season-opener
By Chris Marshall-Bell Published
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'Most of the nuisance, and the risk, is from something that's already illegal' – Cycling speed limits are preaching to the convertedDr Hutch's take on bicycle speeding
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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When should you replace your bike's derailleur pulleys?A functioning rear mech is essential for crisp shifting but how often do you check the wear on its component parts?
By Greg Kaplan Published
