Cycling Plus

Cycling Plus is the manual for the modern road cyclist. Whether you're cycling weekly, an occasional new rider or a Tour de France fan you’ll find everything you need. Each issue is packed with buying advice and tests of essential cycling gear - everything from bikes to bags! Cycling Plus is the place to find training advice, nutrition secrets and practical tips guaranteed to improve your bicycling. It's also full of inspirational rides, real-life cycling stories and entertaining riding-related features.

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What’s on • The best media, entertainment and events from the cycling world

Go figure • The month in numbers

Gravel gear • Quality kit for multi-terrain adventures in 2022

Social climbing • How Eleanor Gobey sent female membership of her club soaring

Switchbacks • Far more than merely a bend in the road, the mountain switchback is a star turn

One Shop Stop • Every issue, Cycling Plus gives some love to Britain’s best independent bike shops

A design for life • More women are riding bikes. Here’s how to keep the momentum

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BIKE OF THE YAR 2022 • The 23 best bikes of 2022. Performance. Endurance. Women’s. Budget. Gravel. Time to let battle commence…

23 for 2022 • The bikes and categories of this year’s showcase…

Our previous Bike of the Year winners

Triban RC500 • £649.99 Understated wide-tyre-friendly all-rounder

Trek Domane AL2 • £775 A fun, stable, confidence-inspiring ride

Forme Monyash 2 • £999.99 A good-value, versatile endurance bike

Giant Contend 1 • £949 A sporty steed that invites you to progress

Boardman ADV 8.9 • £1,150 Well-specced all-rounder with hydraulic discs

QUEEN OF THE ROAD • Three of cycling’s big names battle it out for 2022 Women’s Bike of the Year road bike honours, but which one will triumph?

Scott Addict RC 10 • £5,949 Classic road racer reinvented for the modern era

Lapierre Xelius SL 9.0 • £6,999 French flair in bike form

Merida Scultura Team • £7,750 Merida’s lightweight all-round race bike

Cervélo R5 Disc Force • £8,599 Is this classic still the race bike of your dreams?

Bianchi Specialissima • £11,206 A very special ride indeed from the Italians

RAVEL GREATS • Five quality but very different bikes show the breadth of the gravel bike genre in 2022…

Bombtrack Audax • £2,750 And now for something completely different…

Trek Domane SL6 eTap • £4,300 Endurance smoothy gets SRAM’s wireless Rival

BMC Roadmachine X One • £5,700 Where the endurance bike goes beyond the road

Cannondale Synapse • £6,750 Fully equipped classic to go further than ever

Cervélo Caledonia 5 • £6,999.99 Bike royalty now with 12-speed Ultegra Di2

THE FINAL FIVE BIKE OF THE YEAR 2022 • With our section winners chosen, senior tech ed Warren heads to Wales with a trusted team of riders to decide the overall champion. Which bike will win this year’s award?

LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP

AGE OF ULTRA Five of the best long-distance rides

BUMP IN THE ROAD • Cycling is statistically safe, but what should you do in the event of a crash, and how can you best get back on the bike quickly? Rob Kemp speaks to four cyclists with recent experience…

Crash simulation • Cycling UK’s Sam Jones advises on what to do in the event of a cycle crash on the road

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RIdden & Rated • The UK’s best tests for over 30 years

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