The best cycling water bottles will help to keep liquid levels topped up, whether you are riding on the hottest, coldest, wettest or even just a regular day in a temperate climate. On the bases that 60 per cent of your body is composed of water, it’s important to stay...
Learning how to maintain your bike is time well spent. The rewards are two-fold. Not only will your bicycle run smoothly but you’re likely to save money too. Even just keeping it clean can extend the life of the parts, such as the chain, cassette and tyre, by months. How...
Over the past decade, it became widely accepted that polarized training is the best formula for endurance cyclists. According to this model, training is divided between intensities at polar opposite ends of the spectrum: very easy and very hard, in a roughly 80/20 split. Recently, however, polarized training has become...
This week’s round-up of the best social media posts is a special treat for you on the first rest day of the 2022 Tour de France, and there’s plenty to get your teeth into. But it’s not all just Tour-related content. With the Giro Donne taking place at the moment,...
On stage four of this year’s Tour de France, Wout Van Aert landed a sensational victory in an early show of strength by his Jumbo-Visma team. As the race crested the final hill before the run into the finish in Calais, Jumbo-Visma ignited the race at the front of the...
In this age of online training plans and workouts, do you ever find yourself with a burning question you’d like to directly ask a cycling coach? Well, now is your chance to ask away! In this series, we’ll be putting your questions to expert coaches – send them in at...
In recent years, the main metric for measuring cycling performance and gauging progress has been Functional Threshold Power (FTP) – often ascertained by either a 60 minute maximal test or 20 minutes with the result multiplied by 0.95. More recently, though, other metrics – such as Critical Power (CP) and...
Aberfoyle, a small village north of Glasgow in Scotland, is aiming to become a hot destination for gravel cycling in the United Kingdom. As part of a joint project between ‘Gravelfoyle’ and ‘Bike Trossachs’, a new tourism brand for the area, three brand new waymarked gravel routes opened around the...
“Oh my God, this is actually really interesting!” That has been All Bodies on Bikes advocate Marley Blonsky’s epiphany this summer as she’s started watching the Tour de France for the very first time. Despite having grown up in Texas, the land of Lance Armstrong, Blonsky was never exposed to...
The Tulsa Tough is a bike racing event unlike any other. For racers, it’s three evenings of wicked fast, fiercely competitive and big money criterium racing. For the rest of the city and the hundreds of visiting spectators, it’s a three-day binger that resembles a college summer block party more...
Rapha and Palace Skateboards are back with a radical new kit design, to celebrate the return of the Tour de France Femmes. And this time, there are dinosaurs involved. The kit will be worn by riders on both the EF Education-Tibco-SVB women’s team – at the Tour de France Femmes,...
Ethan Hayter, Connor Swift, Alice Barnes and Dame Laura Kenny are just some of the riders that will be representing Team England at this year’s Commonwealth Games. A total of 35 riders have made the selection, and events will kick off in Birmingham on July 28. The home...
The Tour de France winning bike line over the last ten years looks alarmingly similar to a history of Pinarello’s Dogma model – with seven of the victories being taken from the cockpit of the Italian brand’s thoroughbred race bike. The last two years have proven to be the exception...
He may not be a pro cyclist, but Joe Rees is a world-class Zwift racer, and this Saturday he will be competing – from home – in the UCI eSports World Championships. Rees, who at 21 is the youngest member of the GB team, will be competing alongside fellow...
Multinational chemicals company Ineos is further committing to the development of cycling in Africa by launching a new academy in Kenya. The new team will run in partnership with British-based cycling team Ineos Grenadiers, of which it is the owner, as well as the double Olympic long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge....
It wasn’t that long ago when attaching anything to your bike besides the necessary bottle cages and computer mount was frowned upon. Any serious cyclist was conscious about potential wind drag and strove for nothing but clean lines and empty handlebars. Like the 23mm slick tires, those days are well...
Geraint Thomas has been here before. The 36-year-old has done 11 previous pre-Tour de France press conferences, said some pleasantries about his teammates and some positive things about the state of his form in various places. He might never have done it in Denmark before, sure, this is the Tour’s...
BIKEEXCHANGE-JAYCO: 4/10 (Image credit: Getty Images) Always at the periphery of races, BikeExchange-Jayco claimed plenty of top 12 finishes courtesy of riders like Georgie Baker, Alexandra Manly and Amanda Spratt. But they lacked a talisman to deliver really big results, as Grace Brown and, before her, Annemiek van Vleuten used...
You live near Manchester and share a house with Ethan Hayter and Matt Walls – a good training environment? It was actually really good in lockdown, having others to train with who could push you on. I don’t think there were many riders who had that situation, so I was...
After two long years, the iconic Tour of the Gila is back for real-life racing this week. Known for being the most challenging stage race in American road cycling, the New Mexico race attracts professional and amateur racers alike. And with the rare opportunity to earn some coveted UCI points,...
Whether you are new to cycling or have been an avid rider for most of your life, you’ve most likely heard of, if not used, chamois cream. But if you haven’t a clue what this product is, or even how it’s pronounced, fear not, as hopefully by the end of...
Fabian Cancellara has announced the launch of Tudor Pro Cycling Team for 2023, a Swiss-based outfit partnered with watch manufacturer Tudor as the title sponsor. The seven-time Monument winner will take ownership of Continental level team Swiss Racing Academy, with the intention to register them as a ProTeam next season....
Lotto-Soudal have announced the signings of Reinardt Janse van Rensburg and Carlos Barbero until the end of the year, with the pair joining the Belgian-based team from May 1. Both Janse van Rensburg and Barbero have been without a team since Qhubeka-NextHash folded at the end of last year, and...
Rarely are 14th century Italian poets invoked in press conferences. It’s usually staid comments about the legs feeling good or having faith in one’s team. It was different on Saturday, as Elisa Longo Borghini spoke eloquently about one of the biggest victories of her career. Speaking about the experience of...
It must be something about the theatre and atmosphere of the Roubaix velodrome that provokes riders to sprint for every last place. That’s what Pfeiffer Georgi did, sprinting to ninth place from the second chasing group on the road at Paris-Roubaix, thereby netting one of the standout results of her...
In the latest video documenting Egan Bernal’s road to recovery, titled ‘Egan Bernal: The Best Day of my Life’, the Colombian offers further insight into his return to the bike and how grateful he is for all the support people have offered him, while also reflecting some more on the...
There are some victories which mean way more than the ones that precede them. For Pello Bilbao, his win on stage three of the Tour of the Basque Country marked the accomplishment of a lifelong dream. A rider born just 40 minutes away from the finishing town of Amurrio, Bilbao...
“I enjoy every race… It’ll be a day to remember.” In a sunny Compiègne on Sunday morning, this is how Ben Turner responded to Cycling Weekly‘s polite enquiry of whether he will relish his first Paris-Roubaix. “I think the way you race it makes how much you enjoy it,” he...
One final time up the Mur de Huy for Alejandro Valverde, one final podium for the Spaniard. In his 20 year career, Flèche Wallonne been the race that has come to give him his best success: five victories, two second places and one third place. His final runners-up spot on...
Ineos Grenadiers has announced its Giro d’Italia line-up, with Olympic road race champion Richard Carapaz at the head of the eight-man roster. There’s no space in the lineup for Hackney (London, UK) cyclist Tao Geoghegan Hart, who won the general classification in 2020, and 2021 winner Egan Bernal will be...
