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Best of both worlds

The new Trek Madone blends the speed of the brand's quickest superbike with the lightness of its mountain-crushing Émonda to become the ultimate race bike

Eddy Merckx Pévèle Carbon

A versatile design that shows the pros and cons of flexible build options

Gravel ride: Girona Welcome to Cycling Central

Girona in Catalonia has become one of Europe's most popular cycling venues thanks to its weather, roads and culture. But it's still possible to leave the hordes behind by going off-tarmac

Revolutions and evolutions

The wheel may be a 5,000-year-old invention but designers are still finding ways to make it lighter, faster, safer and more stable.

Kitzbüheler Horn

The Austrian climb that dishes out pain

Cycling history in six items

In the first of a series on cyling's historical artefacts, Cyclist visits the KOERS Museum in Belgium to discover the pick of the exhibits.

Different times

What was the cycling world like 75 years ago? Now in his midnineties, Scottish former champion Ramsay Mackay remembers those times like they were yesterday

Big Ride: Alpe d'Huez - Climb and a half

No climb is as emblematic of the Tour de France as Alpe d'Huez. Ahead of its first appearance at the women's Tour, Cyclist takes a ride around it and up it. And then up it again

This Olympic Road Race might actually be worth watching

A punchy finale around Paris's Butte de Montmartre will bring the excitement usually missing from the Olympic Road Race, says Felix Lowe

Beryl Burton wins her first road Worlds

Beryl Burton claimed the first of two World Championships Road Race titles in 1960, becoming the first rider to win pursuit and road world titles in the same year

Pinarello focus: Pronto Bikes, Frome

'You can ride from here straight through Longleat Safari Park. There aren't many rides in the UK where you can see giraffes'

Q&A George Bennett

The New Zealand climber tells Cyclist about the changing face of racing, working for and against the big stars, and his future plans

Rainbow warrior

Javier Valiente of Amapola Cycles tells us about his multicoloured custom race machine

Can't stop the chop

Unleash your inner kid the Raleigh Chopper is back

Making good great

It took Factor four years and a new factory to improve the Ostro

The Mur de Montrose

Anondescript city centre shortcut to the shops is destined to become a classic climb when the superstars of the peloton ride it next month

Ventum NS1

Aracy road bike with more character than its looks suggest

Colnago C68 Road

The flagship has been refitted, but it's still very Colnago

Susten Pass

The supersized Swiss climb

What we ride

Behind every cycling journalist is a long history of bikes. Some come and go-test bikes, first bikes, stolen bikes, I'm going to get into BMX-ing now bikes - but some stay, for their practicality, their dreaminess or just for the joy they elicit. Here are three of the Cyclist team's personal favourites

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE

Over the past 12 years, Italian racer Elisa Longo Borghini has established herself as one of cycling's great all-rounders. She tells Cyclist about her sporting upbringing, how she conquered her self-doubts, and how she hates coming second

New view on Ventoux

It's possibly the most famous climb in cycling, but Mont Ventoux still has some surprises in store, including this route that takes in the stunning and rarely visited Les Gorges de la Nesque

All in the mind

The mental aspect of cycling can be just as important as the physical. Cyclist talks to two experts about training the brain for when the going gets tough

A moment in time Nicole Cooke tames Ventoux

In 2006, Britain's Nicole Cooke demonstrated her absolute dominance in a bravura performance on the Giant of Provence

Veni, vidi, Vinge?

Felix Lowe makes his predictions for the Tour de France

Q&A Lizzie Deignan

The former World Champion and winner of Paris-Roubaix talks about returning to racing after childbirth, taking on the Tour, and wanting more than just cycling

Steel crazy after all these years

Last issue, steel bikes took a hammering. This issue, deputy editor James Spender leaps to their defence

Tee time

It's time to loosen up with the latest technical T-shirts

Made to measure

Cybro's Alessandro Graser tells Cyclist why custom carbon is the way to go

If it's good enough for Tadej

The new Colnago V4Rs aims to be a Tour winner