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VOLUNTEERING AS YOU RIDE

Become a ride leader on one of British Cycling’s numerous courses and enjoy riding your bike as well as the warm glow of ‘giving back’

Ribble Ultra SL R Team Edition

The Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling team will be racing on custompainted Ribble Ultra SL Rs for the 2022 season

Specialized Roubaix Sport £2,900 | 8.73kg

Clever engineering makes for a highly comfortable ride – but at a price

4 5 6 THE IMPOSSIBLE NUMBER

What’s your dream threshold? Four, five, maybe even six watts per kilo… At what point does the target number become impossible except for pros? Joe Laverick finds out.

THE HAPPY SCENE VOLUNTEERING FOR YOU

Helping others is also a great way to build skills and confidence in yourself, explains Dr Josephine Perry

L'ECOLE BRITANNIQUE

Groupama-FDJ’s development squad has become a go-to place for young British riders in recent years and is turning them into WorldTour pros who get results. Maria David investigates how this most French of teams be came enamoured of young Brits and how it’s making a success of them

Rookies clean up in Coalville

Storms batter riders as event goes ahead

I FOUGHT THE LAW

With changes to the Highway Code sending mixed messages about riding two abreast, Vern Pitt sets out to ascertain if we need to modify our riding to stay safe

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Saturday 26 February | Flanders, Belgium

Wahoo's pedal and roller combo

Power meter pedals and smart rollers released

VOLUNTEER TO MAKE UK'S LONGEST EVENT HAPPEN

One of the UK’s biggest cycling events, the London-Edinburgh-London Audax ride, is running this year – and you can be a part of it. Like nearly all grassroots cycling events in the UK, the ‘LEL’ relies on volunteers, 700 of them to be exact, and recruitment for the many roles on offer is currently under way.

WEEK IN TRAINING : Joe Rees

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 Zwift specialists Gavin Dempster, Ed Laverack, Mark Bruce and Andy Nichols. The Welshman is currently studying to become a teacher, and during the week described in detail below, he was squeezing in training around hectic days on placement in a primary school.

Cav opens win account in Oman

Manxman puts down first marker in bid for Tour de France spot, writes Vern Pitt

Can I buy a new bike… now?

As we head towards the two-year anniversary of the first lockdown and all the supply-chain problems it caused, is availability improving for British bike brands and their customers?

INEOS'S NEW LEADERS

The British superteam is on a road to reinvention and it’s these young talents who will carry its banner over the next decade, writes Chris Marshall-Bell

Gear of the week

Carbon gravel wheels, overshoes and a track pump for tubeless

Kenny retires to become coach

Olympic legend takes sprint reins

Quintana wins in Provence

Filippo Ganna disqualified for illegal bike change

NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Many of the world’s best cyclists are also very accomplished at other activities – and perhaps it’s no coincidence. Dr Josephine Perry lays out a smorgasbord of sideline interests to complement your riding

TEAMS, CHARITIES AND A LORD BACK CW'S VOLUNTEERS DRIVE

It’s easy to imagine a vast gulf between the volunteer at a midweek time trial or criterium and the professional racing star, but the two are inextricably linked; without volunteers, the pros we love to report on and to read about may never have got started in the first place.

TEAM PLAYERS

The stakes have been raised in Yorkshire where helpers just got a new level of volunteer va-va-voom

Winter gloves

With technical designs maximising warmth, breathability and dexterity, the choice is now greater than ever

Jakobsen first out of the blocks in race for Tour slot

Dutchman racks up two wins in Valenciana, reports Vern Pitt

‘Cycling has kept me going'

When young racer Evie Hartley noticed a problem with her vision early last year, she could not have anticipated the monumental health battle ahead of her

Shimano Dura-Ace R9200 groupset £4,271.87 | 2,438g

Much more than just an extra sprocket, writes Stefan Abram

Worlds to make Glasgow ‘bucket list' destination

Social impact key for event organisers

Bernal's horror crash unites Colombia

Nation roots for Giro champ as he leaves hospital after multiple surgeries

World Championship road race 6 August, 1972

Frenchwoman Geneviève Gambillon rides to her first World Championship win in Gap, in southern France. Gambillon was a constant presence in the cycling world throughout her career. In that time she won the French national title on the road seven times and a further 15 titles on the track, mostly in the sprint and pursuit.

WEEKEND WARRIORS

To kick off our volunteering drive, Vern Pitt speaks to a selection of volunteers from across the country about what they do, why they do it and why you should too

Just Abi

In the last in our series on the surge of excellent young British female riders, Owen Rogers talks to 2022 World Tour debutant Abi Smith