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.

Ed’s letter • Issue 405 ● June 2023

Cycling Plus • The CP team tells you their favourite mountainous cycling destination

Struggle Borderlands Border force • Coming 03 Sept 2023

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

Go figure • The month in numbers

Puncture protection • Our top picks to stop you feeling flat on the roads and trails

The Mighty Atom • Eileen Sheridan, one of Britain’s greatest long-distance time-triallists, died recently aged 99

The peloton • The workings of a simple group of cyclists confound the greatest minds and supercomputers

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

Cannondale Super Six Evo LAB71 • £12,500 The new Evo goes hyper-bike thanks to some impressive design tweaks

15 minutes of blame • Laura wishes the discourse on low-traffic measures was healthier

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CITY SLICKERS • We test a quartet of well-priced bikes ideal for commuting but with the potential to do so much more come the weekend…

Need to know • Everyone has a different commute and different needs, so bear yours in mind before choosing your shiny new bike

Bike tech explained • Your quickfire guide to bike jargon

Bikes on test

Trek Dual Sport 2 Equipped Gen 5 • £925 Fully equipped Euro-style trekking bike that’ll tackle rough-road commuting

Cannondale Bad Boy 2 • £1,200 Super-stylish urban cowboy with its distinctive Lefty fork

Spa Cycles Audax • £1,265 Mile-munching machine that’s well set up for year-round, long-distance commuting

Ribble Endurance AL Disc – Enthusiast • £1,599 Endurance-based all-rounder from long-established Lancashire outfit

Spa Cycles Audax • Handbuilt steel endurance machine with a lovely, lively ride

GIRO RIDE OF THEIR LIVES • On the eve of the 2023 edition of Italy’s Grand Tour (6-28 May), we hear from three cyclists united by an enduring love and fascination for the legendary national race

GIULIO CICCONE • 28, Italian professional cyclist. He has won three stages of the Giro d’Italia (2016, 2019, 2022) as well as the mountains jersey in 2019. Since 2019, he’s ridden for Trek-Segafredo

HERBIE SYKES • Herbie Sykes is a journalist and author, writing about professional cycling and football. His books include Maglia Rosa: Triumph and Tragedy at the Giro d’Italia

MARIO ANNI • Mario Anni rode the Giro d’Italia seven times between 1966 and 1973. He never won a stage, but helped some of the greats win theirs. He lives in Brescia, and still rides

JERSEY BOYS • Three top contenders for the 2023 Giro d’Italia

TAKEN FOR A RIDE • By the end of a brutal sportive, your body has been through a lot. But what exactly goes on under the bonnet? James Witts charts what happens inside you and finds out how to get through the toughest rides a little more comfortably

A HELL OF RIDE • Charlie Allenby gets in deep at the Hell of the Ashdown, Kent’s cruel February opener to the sportive season

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