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Pidcock sets sights on Worlds after blistering 2021 start

Storming opening to the year for national champion sees him make the podium three times in three days, reports Vern Pitt

National Hill Climb Championships to be held on Winnats Pass

Only the hardest part of iconic climb will be used, reports Alex Ballinger

Why do so many 2021 bikes cost upwards of £10,000?

Michelle Arthurs-Brennan investigates various factors behind the hike in new bike prices

WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE ON THE Cycling #cw5000 5000 MILE CHALLENGE 2021

Last year thousands of riders took on Cycling Weekly’s challenge of riding 5,000 miles in 2020. Vern Pitt spoke to some of the riders and passes on their advice and inspiration for this year’s entrants

MACHO OR MASOCHISTIC?

At what point does proving your toughness tip over into cocky posturing or even harmful overreaching? Sports psychologist Dr Josephine Perry takes aim at cycling’s macho myths

Cycling 15 March, 1969

A young Phil Liggett rides with the pros as spring races dominate

CW5000 January Challenges

Welcome back, and welcome to the first of your 2021 challenges. Once again, well done to everyone who hit the 5,000-mile mark last year. We had lots of you contacting us to tell us you’d completed it right up until the end of December. We’re still working through the emails and updating the finishers’ list on the website.

Time trialling on verge of step toward equality

Decision on prize money parity for male and female competitors imminent from governing body Cycling Time Trials

Froome ‘rejuvenated' at Israel Start-Up Nation

Being on the same team was like ‘copy and pasting’ year after year, says Brit

Tech trends for 2021

Stefan Abram dusts off the Cycling Weekly crystal ball and peers into 2021 to see how many extra sprockets the new year will bring

Cyclo-cross World Champs

20 February, 1983

Ewan: ‘Returning to racing could be difficult for Groenewegen'

Dutch fastman may struggle to find form after ban

OLD WINTER TRAINING TRICKS MADE NEW

For pioneering pros of a bygone age, winter was a time to roll out radical new training ideas. Chris Sidwells assesses whether their eye-popping methods still stack up today

Cycling 5 July, 1944

Regrettable disqualifications and complex calculations

Hill-climb champ: ‘I just ride on feel'

Recently crowned women’s champion Bithja Jones tells Snowdon Sports how she only took up cycling two years ago

Broken femur? Hey-ho!

After sustaining the type of leg break ‘no one comes back from’, Scott Heyhoe was determined to defy the odds and clinch a cyclo-cross top-10

A TEST FOR THE BEST

In the latest in our series looking back at the roads of classic races, Simon Warren explores the Chiltern routes of the Archer Grand Prix

Joining A New Team Is Like A Second Christmas

Well, the news is out, I’m going to be riding in the colours of Hagens Berman Axeon next season. I’m excited. Very excited. It’s no secret that 2020 was a tough year for me, but a line has been drawn and I’m looking ahead.

Female Rider Of The Year

A year like no other, but either side of the virus lockdown, GB women excelled on road and track at the highest level In association with Lezyne

Swift switches roles for ‘more chances to win'

Brit still has eyes on a Monument, reports Chris Marshall-Bell

Tour de France, stage 12 1932

Swiss rider Georges Antenen dusts himself down after coming a cropper on the 12th stage of the 1932 Tour, from Gap to Grenoble. With goggles and a spare tube around his neck, plus a frame pump and handlebar-mounted bidons, Antenen is the picture of a Thirties continental bike racer. Only the blood running down his leg and the stricken look on his face betray the chaos that has just taken place.

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL ZWIFTING

E-racing platform Zwift has been a saviour of our locked-down year – and CW got in on the action in a big way. David Bradford looks back on an unprecedented year in the great indoors

Staying cool in Sussex 24 July, 1935

Beating the heat on long rides and how to keep a taut chain

Dr Hutch

A deflated Doc ponders a means of returning home after a dud batch of inner tubes leave him wallowing amid mud and manure

DESCENT INTO THE COLD & DARK

To highlight the shocking statistics on men’s mental health, Chris Hall rode down, and up, Box Hill 91 times. He tells Vern Pitt how it went

Maiden eSports world champions crowned

Pro rower wins the men’s title as pro rider wins women’s race

LOCAL HERO PHIL WRIGHT

Editor Simon Richardson meets the man at the centre of the community that saved one of Britain’s most historic sporting venuesIn association with Lezyne

RISING STAR

Not easy to choose just five from the next generation of the UK’s very best riders on road and track

Pidcock just getting started as he beats van der Poel

Brit tells James Shrubsall he feels he has now earned his place at the front

MALE RIDER OF THE YEAR

When racing was allowed, GB’s men shone in every discipline in what has been a year of thrilling contests In association with Lezyne