Cycling Weekly

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd 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!

START LINE 10. 03

IN FOCUS

SD Worx take control for Kopecky to win Strade Bianche • Belgian champ outsprints van Vleuten in Tuscany, reports James Shrubsall

Another Dutch star is born

‘Campionissimo’ Pogačar supreme • Eddy Merckx salutes unflappable Slovenian

Tough summit finish planned for Women’s Tour

Welsh shine at home National Championships • Welsh and Scottish riders take six track golds apiece as Newport crowds salute their heroes

Bigham’s British record

Does cycling’s response to Russian invasion go far enough? • Brits and Dutch extend UCI team ban to individual riders, reports Vern Pitt

Who is Igor Makarov?

Winning while war rages at home • Powerful and poignant victories for Ukrainians Budyak and Padun

OPINION

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

Russian and Belarusian riders banned from competing

The Paris-Nice detective

Cycling Weekly

Annemiek van Vleuten HISTORY CALLING • Annemiek van Vleuten has achieved nearly everything there is to achieve in cycling but this summer she’s eyeing something that hasn’t been done for over 20 years – the Giro-Tour double. Adam Becket finds out what keeps her coming back for more at 39, why training with male team-mates is integral to her improvement and whether she really is “an alien”

Detested discipline

Selfie central

CLUB LIFE • Many clubs say they want to expand their female membership, but some have had far greater success than others. Amy Sedghi talks to members of Penge Cycling Club to find out how they get it so right

Islington Cycling Club

Cowley Road Condors

The science of sitting comfortably • Many women are put off cycling by saddle discomfort, and many more suffer in silence. First female rider home at the 2016 Transcontinental Race, Emily Chappell, explores what the cycling industry is – and could be – doing to get women riding comfortably

HOW TO GET ON THE RIGHT TRACK

THE PROBLEM FOR PROS

MAKING HIRE BIKES COMFORTABLE

CYCLING WEEKLY MOST RECOMMENDED • Emily Chappell highlights saddle models which have proved popular with female riders…

NATURE’S STEROIDS SEX UP YOUR TRAINING RESPONSE • No, testosterone doesn’t give you superpowers any more than being on your period writes off your race prospects. Michelle Arthurs-Brennan finds out how to make the most of your body’s sex hormones – and busts a few myths along the way

‘Years of underfuelling left me hormone-deficient and broken’

‘Bloated, foggy, fatigued… then Superwoman!’

‘If I can do it, anyone can!’ • Devout Muslim and mother of seven Usma Chaudry tells CW how she refuses to let cultural expectations hold back her passion for long-distance cycling

‘WHAT I LEARNT’

FLYING WITH THE KITES

COMING UP

DOMESTIC RESULTS

Great Inventions of Cycling 1925: Toe clips

Dr Hutch • Did you think women were late to the cycling party? On the contrary, says the Doc, they were pioneers of the sport as we know it

ACTS OF CYCLING STUPIDITY

Hour record 25 September, 1958

Cycling 25 October, 1969 • Mixed events voted through as Burton wastes no time