Cycling Weekly

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Cycling Weekly is the UK's only weekly special interest magazine focusing on the cycling market. It is the best source of breaking international and UK news, race reportage, reliable fitness advice, trustworthy product reviews and inspirational features for British cyclists. Always a great read, Cycling Weekly inspires you to ride your bike more!

START LINE 12.10

IN FOCUS

Pogačar takes Lombardia hat-trick with solo win • Slovenian puts on descending masterclass

Shrinking budgets and bad weather the problem

Cav to head to altitude for Tour record bid • Newly appointed Astana-Qazaqstan performance chief tells Tom Thewlis training programme for Manxman needs to be less race-focused

Getting the band back together

Shimano could face legal action over cranks • Government finds cranks don’t measure up

Domestic calendar pushes British teams abroad

French puts herself in national title contention • Sixteen-year-old wins men’s race up Mam Nick as Olivia French announces her arrival, reports Snowdon Sports

Reflections of a bike racing accountant

Failed mega-merger of Jumbo and Quick Step leaves both weakened • Both teams come out of a whirlwind fortnight with questions to answer, writes Vern Pitt

My view

THE HUB • All the news you might have missed from the last seven days

Cav has what it takes to win another Tour stage

Hendry the para-cycling champion

Cycling Weekly

HOW TO ADAPT TO LIFE ON THE WORLD TOUR • Life in cycling’s top tier can be tough. Tom Thewlis hears from some of the best riders in the world, and a psychologist, about just what it takes and how to step up to the demands

Turning negatives into positives

SLEEPLESS IN THE SADDLE • As ultra-racing’s popularity grows, so do the risks some competitors are willing to take. Has the situation gone too far, asks Adam Becket

Safety for women

Chris Potts’s Specialized Aethos • With hill-climb season well under way we look at the punches these flyweight rigs are packing

SRAM Apex AXS £1,299 | 2,976g • As wireless electronic shifting reaches SRAM’s fourth-tier groupset, Anne-Marije Rook finds out if AXS represents a new high for Apex

SHOW OFF OR SHY AWAY? • Which type of person is better equipped to succeed in cycling, bashful introvert or lairy extrovert? Chris Marshall-Bell investigates

‘Personality isn’t fixed – change is possible’

Cycling’s wildest extroverts

Introvert or extrovert: take the test

Monica Greenwood • The former GB coach has leapt from trackside to podium, winning this year’s National Road Series

DOMESTIC RESULTS

How to… break a record

Dr Hutch • Today’s riders are blessed to live in the age of the smart trainer, reckons the Doc, who shudders to recall the monotony of the dumb-turbo

ACTS OF CYCLING STUPIDITY

Tour of Austria June, 1988

Leach Marathon • The Marathon that put Stratford on the map long before 2012