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Return Of The Racer

After falling out of love with cycling two years ago, fastman Rob Sharland is back on the bike and hunting down his former racing prowess

The Big Question

You’re About To Open A New Cycling Cafe, What Are The First Things You Put On The Menu?

Keep It In Perspective

Maintaining form and fitness as a cyclist demands a high level of commitment — which all too easily tips over into obsessiveness and a loss of perspective. Jim Cotton goes in search of bike-life harmony

Independent's day!

Men’s and women’s National 25 titles fall to cafe team Independent Pedaler

GC Battle Starts Early At La Vuetla

Aggressive start for overall contenders with stage win for Quintana, red jersey for Roche

Forged In Sheffield

The city in South Yorkshire can’t stop churning out top-rate cycling talent. Hugh Gladstone finds out why

Dr Hutch

The Velolife Cafe saga proves once again that attitudes to cyclists remain about as rational as the Salem witch trials, laments the Doc

Young Brits Take The WorldTour By Storm

The 2020 peloton will include more British riders than ever before

Tour De Force

Amateur racer Helen Bridgman joined a women’s team riding the entire course of the Tour de France one day ahead of the race to advance the case for racing equality

Saddle Comfort Uncensored

After months of grinning-and-bearing the agony of severe saddle sores, Paralympic cyclist Hannah Dines ended up under the surgeon’s knife. Here, she provides a welts-and-all account of how to stay pain-free on your perch

Shaw And Steels Reign In Ryedale

Close-fought victories in the final round of the National Road Series

National 25-Mile TT Championship

A small cafe-based racing team that was started only last year is well placed to make history this weekend as two of its riders are favourites to win the 25-mile National Time Trial Championship — no two riders from the same squad have won the titles in the same year before.

Have You Found The Perfect Saddle?

Has been a lifelong quest to find the perfect perch and I’ve discovered two things: 1. Perfect doesn’t exist (see point 2), 2. Totally depends on riding style.

Felice Gimondi 1942 – 2019

Legendary Italian was one of the all-time greats

A Cycling-Free Holiday

A cycling-free holiday sends the Doc straight to the gym to drown in a tidal wave of sweat

Cinelli Spinaci Bars

Simon Smythe remembers a popular accessory from a notorious era when pro riders tried anything and everything to go faster

Are Handbuilt Wheels Still Worth Buying?

Simon Smythe weighs up the pros and cons of getting your hoops made to order

Froome In Class Of One With Fourth Tour Victory

Brit sits pretty in the Tour record books

Swift Is King Of The Castle

Darlington youngster lords it up at Leicester Grand Prix.

Racing Towards History

Froome’s dream of a Tour-Vuelta double and joining the elite band of five-times Tour winners is starting to look like it could come true...

The Questions You Never Dared To Ask

As otherwordly as pro riders may seem, they’re only human and are just as prone to acts of stupidity as the rest of us, as CW found out...

Dr Hutch

Carpet lovers look away now — the Doc is cleaning his bike.

French Dogged By Bad Luck

Can Bardet salvage another disappointing year for the French?

In the shadow of sorrow

The Tour headed from the Pyrenees towards the Alps in a week that was marked by excitement but marred by the tragedy of a terrorist attack.

Hosking sprints to epic Champs win

La Course | July 24 | France

Track Superstars

How Team GB have become the greatest velodrome cyclists on the planet 

Style & Substance

A childhood crash may have dashed fashion designer Paul Smith’s pro cycling hopes, but CW discovers it never quelled his passion for all things bike

Final target for Manx Missile

Focus shifts to World Champs in Qatar

Il Poggio Di San Remo

Chris Sidwells admires Milan-San Remo’s great leveller

The Cycle Jumble

Kevin Raymond dons his protective gear and delves into the bargain bins