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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Cycling Plus

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

Tour de France gifts • Our recommended treats for the big race this summer

It is about the bike • How cycling helped me come to terms with terminal cancer

Lycra • From corsets via skiing to socks: how a miracle fibre took over the world (and gave cyclists a bad name)

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

Hummingbird Single Speed Flax • £3,995 Ultra-lightweight folding bike with an environmental conscience

Essex appeal • How a traffic-free sportive masks the dangers on Essex’s roads

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THREE GRAND DAYS OUT • As prices creep up, senior tech ed Warren Rossiter finds out if big miles have to mean big money by testing three endurance bikes worth under £3,000 each

Need to know • What makes an endurance road bike different to a performance road bike, and what should you consider when buying one? Here’s our five-step guide

Bike tech explained • Your quickfire guide to bike jargon

Bikes on test • Three contemporary classics of the endurance bike genre

Cannondale Synapse Carbon 4 • £2,400 Stripped-down long-distance machine

Cube Attain GTC SL • £2,499 Value-packed, big-mile muncher

Giant Defy Advanced 0 • £2,899 Wireless drivetrain for less

Giant Defy Advanced 0 • It’s endurance bike royalty and in this package it’s both cutting edge and, relatively speaking, affordable

10 WAYS TO GET…BATTLE READY! • THE PANDEMIC-ENFORCED DISRUPTION TO GROUP RIDES AND SPORTIVES HAS STRIPPED MANY CYCLISTS OF THEIR BIKE-HANDLING SKILLS AND CONFIDENCE ON THE ROADS. FROM GROUP-RIDING REFRESHERS TO URGENT TECHNICAL TWEAKS, HERE ARE ESSENTIAL WAYS TO GET ROAD-READY AGAIN…

STOREY TO BE TOLD • Laura Laker heads to the London velodrome for the selection day of the Skoda DSI Cycling Academy, a programme led by Dame Sarah Storey giving talented young women a unique start in the world of elite racing

Dame Academy • Sarah Storey inducts three new recruits to the academy

Gimme Moore • Since his debut French Revolutions in 2001, Tim Moore has become one of cycling’s biggest-selling, most critically acclaimed and captivating travel writers. Here the author opens up about his latest misadventure, a 4,409km Vuelta recreation on a bike from 1975. What could go wrong?

Moore, Moore, Moore! • Bad pizza, wooden wheels and freezing in Finland… Tim’s existing range of cycling books

Tim’s Euro hits & misses • 10 of the very best – and worst – moments from Moore’s European travails…

Vuelta Skelter encounter • We join Tim in Zaragoza as he battles stinky cycling mitts and down-tube gears, and recalls the plight of Spanish cyclists at the Tour…

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

All-City Cosmic Stallion Ti • £5,999 as built Saddle up and ride!

DMT KRSL shoes • £329.99 Tadej Pogačar’s secret weapon

Wizard Works Lil Presto • £65 Compact barrel bag for your bar or...