Cycling Weekly Magazine - August 05, 2021

In this issue

TIPS FROM THE PROS
CLIMB LIKE A WINNER Grand Tour stage winners share their advice.

Tougher than the Tour?
We joined Lachlan Morton on his epic adventure..

BMX medal haul vindicates BC focus shift

Performance director Stephen Parks tells Vern Pitt diversification key to future

4 mins

National 25-mile time trial

SUNDAY 8 AUGUST, KESWICK, CUMBRIA

3 mins

MacKenzie breaks 19-year-old Lejog record

Scot returns to break record she fell short of two years ago, reports Chris Marshall-Bell

2 mins

RACING THE TOUR

WorldTour rider Lachlan Morton loves a madcap challenge, and this summer he took on his biggest one yet, riding the Tour de France route and all the transfers unsupported in a bid to beat the pro peloton to Paris. Chris Marshall-Bell tracked him down to do a turn on the front

9 mins

BOUNCING BACK

What does it take to return from a major injury? James Shrubsall spoke to Israel Start-Up Nation’s Carl Fredrik Hagen, for whom a training crash turned into months of challenging recovery

7 mins

Hope's secret Olympic time trial bike (and why it didn't go to Tokyo)

Simon Smythe gets the inside story behind the delayed TT version of Team GB’s track machine

7 mins

CLIMB LIKE A STAGE WINNER

How to climb faster without losing weight? Chris Marshall-Bell asks an all-star selection of WorldTour stage winners

10 mins

MADDI ALDAM-GATES ‘A FISTFUL OF FIRSTS!'

The past month has been a series of cycling ‘firsts’ for me. June ended with a week away on a Skoda DSI Academy training camp, my first time meeting everyone, and included three races: my first ever race in a mixed field of men and women, my first ever time trial, and my first ever National-A race, the women’s CICLE Classic at Melton Mowbray.

2 mins

Mexico Olympics October 1968

The Italian men’s team train behind the Vespa of their manager on the roads of Mexico prior to the start of the Olympic competition. The team would go on to win gold in the Olympic road race and bronze in the team pursuit that year.

1 min

Cycling 2 September, 1915

Bikes and machine guns, a surprise combination

2 mins

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Cycling Weekly Magazine Description:

Published by Time Inc. (UK). 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!