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

Geraint Thomas finds himself in Giro d’Italia lead • Ineos Grenadiers contender plots racing peak for Grand Tour’s final week

Reusser rules Itzulia

Charlie Quarterman Giro diary • The Corratec rider on breaking in and breaking away

Tom Gloag finding his Giro feet • Londoner making his Grand Tour debut after late call-up to Dutch squad, reports Tom Thewlis

St Piran’s perfect podium • UK’s only senior pro team in total control at the Lincoln Grand Prix

Clay conquers the cobbles

How Ben Healy kept doing what he does best

New comp record for road bikes? • George Fox’s ultra-quick 18.41 for 10 miles could see the CTT inaugurate a new record category

Dowsett: ‘this is forward thinking’

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

10-mile road bike TT record finally beaten

Looking back at Pat

Cycling Weekly

“The climb is much longer than you think” • Vern Pitt heads out on a tough and testing loop, guided by the local knowledge of homegrown star Elynor Bäckstedt

Local info

Racing heritage

Nicole Cooke

A trio of top local clubs

INCOMING SPANISH REVIVAL • After a brief drought, the Spanish are again set to infiltrate the ranks of bona fide Grand Tour contenders. Juan Ayuso and Carlos RodrÍguez have big cycling shoes to fill, but they both exude a winning quota of confidence, as Chris-Marshall Bell discovers

Wait for female champion continues

Vitus’s Venon Evo is an all-road bike ‘made in two flavours’ • A ‘do it all’ machine that comes in a choice of road and gravel builds, writes Luke Friend

ECLIPSE ENDURANCE ROAD TUBE

Pearson On and On £3,850 | 8.98kg • An aero carbon gravel machine from the oldest bike shop in town

ALTERNATIVELY…

Scribe Elan Wide+ 32-D £1,190 | 1,356g • Andy Turner tests a lightweight wheelset with an all-rounder profile

THE BEST - KEPT SECRET IN TRAINING: THERE ARE NO SECRETS • Polarised, pyramidal, LSD, Zone 2… there are myriad theories about how best to structure your training. But do any of them really work better than simply riding your bike lots? Joe Laverick investigates

‘Mix up the disciplines, go with the f low’

‘Don’t sweat the detail, just get the work done’

Does baking soda enhance cycling performance? • It makes cakes rise, but will it do the same for your sustainable power? We asked Andy Sparks

How does bicarb work?

DOMESTIC RESULTS

How To… revolutionise cycling

Dr Hutch • The Doc feels the need for speed, and he’s willing to part with living room furniture for the cause

ACTS OF CYCLING STUPIDITY

Giro d’Italia 27 May, 1963

Argos pursuit bike • A rare track bike made for a legend of the British TT scene