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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

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - BARRY HOBAN

Cobbles, coal and Yorkshire grit - In association with Specialized

Le Col steps up backing for Drops

Funding deal offers increased support for British women’s team, reports Vern Pitt

INTERNATIONAL RIDER OF THE YEAR

The CW judges select their top five international riders of 2020, with Dutch cyclists featuring heavily

CLUB OF THE YEAR - ILKESTON CC

The Derbyshire club was only set up in 2017, but has quickly become a pillar of the community In association with Santini

How I Re-Learned To Love The Bike

With the changing of the clocks, the turning of the weather, and the run-up to Christmas in full swing, it feels like winter is upon us.

London Six-Day July 1923

Two riders at the six-day races at Olympia, London in July 1923, take a break from the action for a spot of high jinks in front of the camera.

‘Lucky' Tanfield gets 11th hour spot at Qhubeka-Assos

Ribble-Weldtite clause saved Tanfield’s euro career, reports Vern Pitt

THE HUB

All the news you might have missed from the last seven days

Pridham's ‘dream comes true' as first female WorldTour DS

Former Vitus boss joins Israel Start-Up Nation

GOOD FOR YOUR AGE?

There is no avoiding the fact that cyclists slow down as they grow older, but what counts as good for your age, and how can you stay faster for longer? David Bradford goes in search of age-related gold standards

Dr Hutch

Cyclists and pedestrians are losing the battle of the Big Smoke, where sadly, writes the Doc, the car continues to be king

Cycling 26 August, 1915

A simple approach to bike-fit, and tithe barns