Cycling Weekly

Published by TI Media Limited Cycling Weekly is the UK's only weekly special interest magazine focusing on the cycling market. It is the best source of breaking international and UK news, race reportage, reliable fitness advice, trustworthy product reviews and inspirational features for British cyclists. Always a great read, Cycling Weekly inspires you to ride your bike more!

Wales never fails

In Focus

Emma Finucane makes history • Welshwoman first sprinter to win four golds at one Commonwealth Games

GB and IOM Medals

Teenagers shine in Glasgow • Hudson and Boothman both medal at first Games

Mont Ventoux awaits Le Tour • Tour de France Femmes set for battle on iconic mountain, reports Tom Davidson in France

Wiebes rules in Switzerland

MILLIE COUZENSPREPPING FOR THE TOUR

Racing round-up

Martin storms to National 25 title • Wells and Davies make up podium in Norfolk

Archibald triumphs again

THE HUB • All the news you might have missed from the last seven days

BRECON BAD • Having hatched a customarily screwball plan to bag every major pass in the Brecon Beacons in a single ride, Simon Warren suffers the consequences

ESCAPE TO THE EDGELANDS • Craving open fields and quiet trails, city-dweller Meg Elliot discovers that hidden urban edgelands offer untapped potential for an off-road escape

Remco Evenepoel’s Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL9 • A closer look at the double Olympic champion’s Tour de France race bike

Tom Pidcock’s Pinarello Bolide F TT • A 60T chainring, 28mm tyres and 3D-printed goodies headline the Brit’s go-faster machine

Why don’t all Tour race bikes weigh 6.8kg? • Performance goals and team budgets mean many bikes exceed the UCI’s minimum weight limit

SRM X-POWER DIRECT PEDALS £550 • An ultra-low-stack road pedal that requires a proprietary cleat and shoe system to work

10 QUESTIONS ON COGNITIVE FATIGUE • Mental fatigue slows your reactions, increases perceived effort and blunts performance. We ask an expert how to resist it

BRAIN WARM-UPSFIND YOUR ‘GOLDILOCKS’ ZONE

PHILLIPS TRIUMPHS AT TOUR OF MENDIP • Clayton wins National Junior Women’s Series

COMING UP

SAM HOLLIS’S SCOTT FOIL RD 40567

HOW TO…RIDE A STAGE RACE

“A Tour rider’s greatest fear? Climbing into the broom wagon to find a CW journalist in there” • Sometimes the sensible thing to do is to quit, so why is it so hard?

Dear Doc

Tour de Suisse

Cycling Weekly

Are we consuming too much, or too little salt?

Paris-London memories

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