CATEGORIES

TRAINING O'CLOCK?

Most of us ride our bikes whenever we get chance, but is there abest time of day when you’ll unlock the most potential and make maximum gains? Sports scientist Dr Mark Homer investigates

PURSUITING'S NEW PARADIGM

The men’s team pursuit world record appears to be in freefall, Vern Pitt investigates why

Paris-Nice finishes early as nations scale back events and close borders

The Race to the Sun finished early, marking the last racing for at least a month in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, writes James Shrubsall

Greg LeMond's 1989 Bottecchia TT bike

The aero-bar machine that swept to the closest-ever Tour win

FORGING LEGENDS

We look back on the top 10 best Classics of all time and remember the British riders who staked their claim to one-day fame

Dr Hutch

The Covid-19 recess offers you the chance to inoculate yourself against 90s racing nostalgia by rewatching the era’s video nasties

Dan Bigham's Ribble SL R

New team bike gets the thumbs-up from Huub-Wattbike’s aero innovator

Allen out-rides the clock in Ingleborough

Biggest win yet for PMRR man in classic Yorkshire time trial

Inside The UAE Tour Coronavirus Lockdown

Sophie Smith reports from her quarantined hotel in Abu Dhabi

THE NEXT GENERATION

A new crop of young British stars is poised to burst upon the world stage; Chris Marshall-Bell profiles its leading lights

OPINION

OWAIN DOULL

‘Overnight my limbs stopped working'

Just getting back into cycling after a dalliance with motorsport, Ted Reddick was struck down by a debilitating neurological condition

Next three months ‘crucial' to Froome's Tour dreams

Brit makes low-key return to racing at truncated UAE Tour, reports Sophie Smith in Abu Dhabi

British Cycling eyes strategic shift for Tokyo Olympics

Performance director considers turn away from team pursuit, reports Vern Pitt in Berlin

Lizzy Banks lays down marker for Flanders

Brit finishes sixth but curses mistake that cost her podium chance, writes Vern Pitt

Brit helped Denmark to smash world records

Huub-Wattbike aerodynamicist says it’s “scary” how fast the Danish team can still go

WATT WORKS FOR ME: Matthew Holmes

The Lotto-Soudal neo-pro on winning as a rookie, training 'flat-out' and avoiding easy options

Omloop Het Niewsblad - Ghent, Belgium, February 29

Greg Van Avermaet was in a bullish mood discussing his form after the Volta ao Algarve last week ahead of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday, the first cobbled Classic of the year.

World Sprint Championship August 31, 1954

Britain’s Reg Harris (foreground) defeats title holder Arie van Vliet of the Netherlands in the finals of the world professional sprint championship in Cologne, Germany.

Evenepoel ‘not in his best shape' as he cruises to Algarve victory

Belgian still building towards Giro d’Italia in May

Stedman eyes Yorkshire top 10 after biggest career victory

Canyon-dhb score huge Turkish stage-race win, writes Vern Pitt

Connor Swift's Canyon Ultimate

A look at the 2018 national champion’s winter training bike

Junior wins North Road

Stockwell and Grace hardest riders against the North Road clock

BRITISH RACING'S FINANCIAL BLACK HOLE

As historic British races fall off the domestic calendar at an alarming rate, Chris Marshall-Bell sets out to find out why races are struggling and what can be done to fix it

Mapei return to cycling team sponsorship with UK club

A jersey with a big history heads down to the little leagues.

BREAKING DRAG

Are CdA-measuring tools the tech of the future? Tech editor Michelle Arthurs-Brennan investigates

Cyclo-cross World Championships February 24, 1968

British pro Keith Mernickle struggles to 27th place at the Cyclo-cross World Championships in Luxembourg. Mernickle had been on form earlier in the month, taking the win at the last big domestic cross race of the season around Whippendell Wood near Watford, but he was no match for the likes of Erik De Vlaeminck in the Worlds race.

SHARING SUCCESS

There’s no mightier influence on your fitness than fellow cyclists — friends and foes. Sports psychologist Dr Josephine Perry identifies five archetypal riders who could prove pivotal to your progress

Pidcock eyes rainbow quadruple after Worlds silver

Brit impresses in Switzerland and anticipates future battles with world champion van der Poel

Parcours Strade wheelset £999

Michelle-Arthurs Brennan gets up to speed with a new aero wheelset