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Which Records Will Be Next To Fall?
While 2024 has been a good year for record setting, some of the most popular time trialling distances, those under 100 miles, have proved stubbornly difficult to break. None of those senior records have fallen in the last five years. Conversely, five
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Archibald Wraps Up Another TCL Title
Katie Archibald sealed her third overall victory in four editions of the UCI Track Champions League last weekend. A win in the scratch race during Saturday’s final round in London was enough to seal the Scot’s latest title early, with her name inscri
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Racing Hit By Storms
Storm Darragh forced the cancellation of day two of the National Trophy, with the elite races falling victim to the conditions, but Saturday’s veterans and youth races provided some great racing at the Clanfield Cross Course in Hampshire. Paul Lloyd
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Colnago’s Radical New Y1Rs
Colnago’s new Y1Rs race bike has turned heads this week, with the formerly traditional Italian company saying the aero machine is the culmination of years of effort. “We started working on this bike in late 2021, which makes it the longest bike devel
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BMX Protesters
Young protesters take to two wheels, the only way kids knew how in the early 1980s – by BMX. They were showing their displeasure at the lack of a BMX track in their home town of Middlesbrough, with signs pointing out that even villages had them, and
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The Hub
Olympic champion Katy Marchant suffered a broken arm at the UCI Track Champions League on Saturday when she collided with Germany’s Alessa-Catriona Pröpster, vaulted over the barrier and crashed into the crowd. Marchant, Pröpster and four spectators
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The Doped Games
“If Lance Armstrong, after defeating cancer and winning the Tour de France, had stood up and said openly that his comeback from the brink of death was made possible by EPO, then EPO would have been the hottest-selling product of the early 2000s,” Aro
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Race With Us On Zwift!
Join us every Wednesday at 6pm for a 10-mile TT on Zwift Sign up here: bit.ly/CWclubten Last week’s results Event #229 Course: Bologna TT Date Wednesday 4 December Next week’s event Event #230 Course: Tick Tock Date Wednesday 18 December■
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1889 - The Bike Computer
The first bike computer was a device that attached to the front fork near the wheel hub and counted wheel revolutions, displayed via a tiny dial that was much too small to read unless you got off and peered at it. When you got home, you multiplied th
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2024 A Vintage Year for Records
John Archibald 3:12.58 It was around 75 miles into his first ever 100-mile time trial that John Archibald began to have regrets. “I just got a real shock. What had felt very easy after 25 miles felt absolutely horrendous by 75 miles. It wasn’t the ca
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Harley Widdowson’s Lapierre Xelius
Harley Widdowson’s Lapierre Xelius is built for both speed and comfort, with the triple-triangle design catering to the latter in particular. Built with Shimano Ultegra Di2, DT Swiss E1800 wheels with Schwalbe One tyres in 28mm, it’s a versatile mach
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Gear Of The Year
The Cycling Weekly tech team has the enviable task of reviewing hundreds of new products every year, from inexpensive tubeless valves to extravagant superbikes. Each will receive a score based on form, function, performance and value but this rarely
Cycling Weekly7 min readDiet & Nutrition
Eating Disorders
Jan Tratnik had been cycling for only three years when Quick-Step signed him to his first WorldTour contract in 2011. He was young, naive, inexperienced and keen to please those around him. “We did some tests [in training] and when we saw my watts pe
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Cycling Weekly
Editor: Simon Richardson Web editor: Michelle Arthurs-Brennan News editor: Adam Becket Features editor: David Bradford Senior writer: James Shrubsall Tech editor: Simon Fellows Tech writers: Hannah Bussey, Joe Baker Staff writers: Anne-Marije Rook, T
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Local Club Felt Let Down By British Cycling Safeguarding
A cycling club in England say they felt let down by an inadequate safeguarding response from British Cycling after a youth coach was investigated by police for sending inappropriate messages via social media. Multiple sources told Cycling Weekly that
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Cyclo-cross
Saturday, 7 December • National Trophy Series round four (Clanfield University, Bedfordshire): Over-40 Male Veterans: 1. Paul Lloyd (Banjo Cycles Raceware) 39.32; 2. A. Lansley (PedalOn.co.uk) +0.24; 3. L. Craven (Wheelbase CabTech Castelli) +0.28; 4
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Winter Motivation CW Staff Challenge
The challenge for me is a simple one. By the middle of March, I want to be able to ride a 20-minute time trial at 400 watts or above. That’s more or less WorldTour power, provided we’re talking absolute figures – no one mention watts per kilo, OK? To
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Pidcock Transfer Saga Finally Resolved
The mystery surrounding Tom Pidcock’s future has finally reached its resolution – he has left Ineos Grenadiers and joined Q36.5 Pro Cycling on a three-year deal. The saga began its closing act last week, when, in a widely anticipated team statement,
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Letter Of The Week
Modern bike lights, though technologically brilliant, I find are counter-productive. When driving my car along poorly or unlit roads, I have cyclists riding towards me with lights shining directly (so it feels) into my eyes. The result is I have to a
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Give Us Training And Give Us Our Due, Say Organisers
Over the past three weeks we have examined the challenges faced by road racing in the UK. Race entries are down, while logistical and financial issues are up. Races are being cancelled and even lost altogether in the face of problems that often seem
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Is Rider Speed Really The Problem?
I spent last Friday at the UCI Track Champions League final round in London with an athlete I support. It was an exciting, well-produced event, but was unfortunately brought to a rather sudden close as Katy Marchant and Alessa-Catriona Pröpster ended
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The Only Way Is Ethics
Michael McNamee is a professor of applied ethics at Swansea University, specialising in sports ethics. “Let’s start with the positives: the idea that traditional sport doesn’t take care of its principal stakeholders, the athletes, is a fair claim. Th
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Tom Pidcock leaves Ineos for Q36.5
While we’ll probably never get to the bottom of the Cummings/Pidcock drama. It’s fairly obvious removing them both from the team has its advantages in drawing a line under the situation. Lee Wood Ineos should start afresh, look at everything and ever
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Colnago C40
Released in 1994, the Colnago C40 utilised all of Colnago’s expertise to create a bike fit for the best riders in the world and versatile enough to triumph both at Grand Tours and cobbled Classics. The carbon tubes were bonded to carbon lugs in a rad
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“I’m A Loose Cannon And Not To Be Trusted”
It is probably time to admit that, in online racing at least, I’m a dick. I act in bad faith, I make trouble. I can always be confident that when the chat in a race stops being cheery and starts to fill with innuendo and implied threats of virtual ve
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Breaking The Taboo
Our ‘Let’s Talk About’ series continues this week with a look into eating disorders. These are more common in everyday life than many people realise, and when it comes to endurance sport they can be hidden or worse still, normalised. After all, we we
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Wahoo Elemnt Ace £549.99 | 208g
Before we dive into the multitude of new (in some cases, first of their kind) features on Wahoo’s answer to the Garmin Edge 1050, we should tackle the 400lb gorilla in the room: the sheer size of the Wahoo Elemnt Ace. The new computer measures 125x69
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Letter Of The Week
The news that AusCycling will ban Matthew Richardson from ever competing for Australia, among other sanctions, reeks of hypocrisy. Australian sport has a long and distinguished tradition of gleefully accepting persons born and raised in other countri
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Acts of Cycling Stupidity
A colleague alerts me to a recent meeting between one of the sponsors of a prominent team and a media sales team. One of the media side, not particularly a cyclist, was concerned about muffing the pronunciation of well-known rider Tadej Pogačar’s nam
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Greg Lemond
At the tender age of 14, Greg LeMond started cycling in Nevada just to “get in shape for skiing”. After only a fortnight he won his first race, but his choice of outfit attracted some dirty looks. “I showed up to my first race [in 1976] riding a yell
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