Early cyclo-cross: winter training for roadies or preparation for war?

Photographer Chris Auld zooms in on the modified and minimalist bikes raced by Britain’s best hill-climbers

Cavendish rocks London: action from Lee Valley Velopark

A useful promotional tool when you get it right; a world of bickering and insults when it goes wrong. Pro riders share their experiences from...

The Hammer Series felt like the biggest thing to hit cycling in 2017. Many of the pundits seemed to love it, but Philippa York has...

It was the race he and his team, AquaBlue Sport, had been building up to all season, but in the Vuelta’s first week, it all...

With the arrival of Trump, the world seems to have woken to an age of disinformation. Unfortunately in cycling, as Matt Rendell reminds us, post-truth is nothing new

Short Tour de France stages are not an especially new phenomenon. They’re more an eighties revival thing

Having moved up a category, the junior world champion took two top-ten placings on the opening weekend of his cyclo-cross season. Tom Pidcock reflects on struggling in...

Former professional cyclo-cross rider Matt Ellis was recently appointed manager of the British cyclo-cross squad. How bright is the future, Matt?

The social season kicked off in style, with a fine dinner and auction in aid of African charity Qhubeka in Girona

Seamless with sewn-in logos, Gazprom-Rusvelo’s is a team kit with properties like no other. Morten Okbo finds an Italian factory where technology trumps tradition

Speedy kit from Santini, Castelli, Endura, Giro, Poc, Lazer, Mavic, Suplest and Bont. Fast bikes from Ridley, Cervélo and Neil Pryde.

The final Monument of the season, and for many the most beautiful, Il Lombardia offers the climbers one last chance for redemption

In praise of Backstage Pass, Orica-Scott’s behind-the-scenes documentary series that changed the game in professional cycling

An Elizabethan manor house, top professionals and rows of glistening Italian bikes on the lawn: it could only be the Colnago Owners Day

In his racing style, personality and even his ban, there was a solidity to Alberto Contador that places him amongst cycling’s greats

Racing through the Franco era, Basque separatism, and losing the Vuelta by 14 seconds… “I’ll never get that silence out of my head”

“My first race was in Treviglio, and we had a little three-wheeled van belonging to a greengrocer as a team car, with us sitting in...

From Beryl Burton in the sixties through to Amber Neben today, anecdotal evidence of women cyclists excelling later in their careers is plentiful

George Bennett’s profile rose in 2017 thanks to both his results and the hand-painted shoes he wore during the Tour de France

The Giro’s Grande Partenza in Israel will sure look nice, but what about the ethics of its visit? Richard Abraham mulls it over

At home with BMC’s crocked captain, talking Froome, venomous snakes and the Dauphiné betrayal that affected their friendship

Photo ops, champagne, tootling into town, then a big sprint at the end. It’s a winning formula that needs no alteration

Twenty-six years ago a brash Texan asserted himself as the new star of the English speaking cycling world. William Fotheringham was there

In an extract from his new book on the Worlds, Giles Belbin recalls the first championship opened to professionals

The junior Paris-Roubaix winner and world cyclo-cross champion opens an Aladdin’s cave of race jerseys and missing tools in Yorkshire. Benedict swoops and swoons

The columnist formerly known as Robert Millar muses over both her ‘own little version of Brexit’ and some other more shocking revelations

With the 2017 Vuelta a España done and dusted, we take a look back at the movers and shakers of the final week

The Tour de France and protests go hand in hand. But why are they protesting? And why is Basso studiously ignoring them?