Cycling Weekly

New colours World champion Anna van der Breggen and team-mates swap out their long-running Boels-Dolmans orange and black for a purple and red team strip, or rainbow bands in van der Breggen’s case. Training last week in Denia, Spain, van der Breggen

Elingworth rejoined the team last month as director of racing after just a season and a half at Bahrain-McLaren. Speaking to Cycling Weekly, the British coach said: “I wouldn’t have gone back to this team if it had just been as it was when I left. It

The National Track Championships were always a big deal for Cycling in the 70s and 80s, even with the regular disruption caused by the weather at Leicester’s outdoor track. With little or no international success on the road in the late Seventies, it

Cycling Time Trials refused to make prize money for men and women equal at its board meeting on Sunday. The sport’s governing body has come under pressure from campaigners to mandate that prize money for men and women should be equal as a way of begi

• Ineos same score as Wanty? Wanty is so chaotic… The Ineos one looks much better. Also Trek is still way better than ⅖. If it’s OK, you don’t have to change every year in my opinion. Jens Baert • Ag2r is the best. Classical yet simplicity in design.

There are concerns that Brexit could make things significantly harder – and more expensive – for British cyclists and their teams racing on the Continent. The final Brexit deal makes no provision for UK residents visiting Europe beyond the standard 9

No fewer than 162 riders finished last week’s Club 10 (13 January) on Zwift’s almost pan-flat Tempus Fugit course. With just 26m of elevation, this is chance for the TT specialists to shine – but it was a lightweight climbing supremo who took the spo

First, be Belgian. Second, be a bike rider. Third, don’t be the actual Eddy Merckx. These are generally enough to get in the frame. And when that happens, all of Belgium will jump on board. Belgium is not in any way discouraged by the fact that well

With the Beast from the East only paying us a couple of short, sharp visits a year these days, British winters are milder than they used to be. Often keeping warm in wet weather is more of a priority, and that’s why a winter jacket that offers a good

The government has left cyclists in dark over its interpretation of the ‘stay local’ rule governing exercise under lockdown despite calls for ‘urgent clarification’ last week. British Cycling, Cycling UK and Triathlon UK penned a joint letter to the

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I’ve given up chocolate for January. But why? I’m not trying to lose weight; I don’t obsess over my food and it’s not a New Year’s resolution. It simply comes down to the reasoning of, why not? I’ve got a lethal sweet tooth. I spend a lot of hours tr

One thousand cyclists gather near Tring, Hertfordshire, to ride to the start of the Metropolitan and South Midland Association’s massed rally at Manor Farm, Marsworth, just three miles away. Rallies were somewhat the sportives of their day, attractin

It’s surprising what you can do within a 10-mile radius of home, like discovering new routes on and off-road. Susan Hoare The lack of clarity around what is considered ‘local’ is a problem for most, I think. I’ve taken it to be within 10 miles of my

When the ‘deal’ was announced on Christmas Eve 2020, it seemed as though the bike industry had got a last-minute reprieve from paying tariffs on goods imported from the EU. However, it turned out that the 1,246-page UK-EU Trade and Co-Operation Agree

Ten months after the first lockdown, the cycling industry is struggling to catch up with the bike boom. And with new duties on bikes unveiled with the Brexit deal, we could now be looking at price hikes as well as shortages. Last March, furloughed wo

How long would it take you to eat half a cow? No, we don’t know either. But if you wanted to get a 20g dose of creatine from a natural food source, that’s what you would need to do. “We ordinarily get 2g of creatine a day,” explains Luc van Loon, a p

You had a breakthrough 2020 despite all the disruption – how? The start of the year was frustrating – I’d been due to go racing in Belgium, so I did take a bit of a knock. But I had it in my head that a few people might take this time to rest, wherea

There was a dreary inevitability about the moment last week that Boris Johnson set out for a lockdown bike ride a full and horrifying seven miles from Downing Street. Of course the press gleefully hitched our trailer to Johnson’s anvil to score what’

Geneva is well known as one of Europe’s most expensive cities, but when Bigla-Katusha team manager Thomas Campana met businessman Matthias Thoma for coffee in the Swiss city, he had no idea what it would cost. Katusha, both withdrew backing with imme

Marcel Kittel has been pondering the question for a week. “How do you define your best year? Do you take victories as the most important factor?” It was what we assumed. When Cycling Weekly and Kittel first exchanged messages, we had tentatively agre

Pidcock eyes Vuelta for 2021 Tom Pidcock says he wants to ride a Grand Tour in his debut season at WorldTour level, with his eyes on the Vuelta a España. The Yorkshireman’s move to Ineos Grenadiers has also been brought forward to February, following