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!

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IN FOCUS

Zoe Bäckstedt flies to sixth world title • The 19-year-old dominated the under-23 race at the Cyclo-cross World Championships last weekend, Adam Becket reports

Dutch dominate elite races

GB sprint trio claims historic gold • Squad takes home nine medals from opening Track Nations Cup round in Adelaide, writes Tom Davidson

GB MEDALS • ADELAIDE NATIONS CUP

British Cycling rescues Tour of Britain and Women’s Tour • National governing body’s major events team to take leading role in safeguarding future of both races, reports Tom Thewlis

My view

Shooting the breeze

RACING ROUND-UP

Josh Tarling eyes ‘perfect’ Olympic time trial • The 19-year-old Ineos Grenadiers sensation is eyeing two medals in Paris – Adam Becket caught up with him in Australia

Ineos’s fantasy team pursuit line-up

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

Love your local bike shop!

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SPAIN’S STRADE? • Is the Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior really the Spanish equivalent of Strade Bianche? Chris Marshall-Bell rides the route to find out

Tips for mastering the sterrato

Essential information

‘I finished last in Jaén’

CHASING THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE • Having spent over a year investigating motor doping, Chris Marshall-Bell examines the rumours and unanswered questions that remain

‘Just another conspiracy? Maybe not…’ • CW features editor David Bradford on how his involvement in the Ghost in the Machine podcast altered his view on motor doping

Are gravel race bikes necessary? • Joe Baker asks the experts whether gravel racing warrants a new category of machine

BBB DOUBLESHOT

Scott Addict RC 10 £7,599 | 7.60kg • A rather nondescript-looking exterior hides a bike that’s full of neat features and clever integrations, and gives a reassuringly solid ride

MY RIDING

ALTERNATIVELY…

Northwave Veloce Extreme shoes £359.99

Rab Cinder Kinetic Waterproof shorts £160

Zefal Z Hydro Race 1.5l hydration bag £24.99

SPRING INTO ACTION 6 KEY SESSIONS TO FIRE UP YOUR FITNESS • With spring sunshine just around the corner, Steve Shrubsall asks a selection of pros and coaches for their favourite sessions for the final weeks of winter

Train while you race

What is critical power?

Corran Carrick-Anderson

DOMESTIC RESULTS

ZWIFT RESULTS CYCLING WEEKLY CLUB 10 TT

BE INSPIRED TO RIDE

How To… marshal a bike race

Dr Hutch • Intensity zones may be based in science but it’s the subjective scale of suffering that really counts, according to the Doc

ACTS OF CYCLING STUPIDITY

Tony Doyle rides the rollers 1984

Benotto Modelo 3000 • The steed of Lo Sceriffo, as immortalised in cycling’s most iconic film