Cycling Plus

Cycling Plus is the manual for the modern road cyclist. Whether you're cycling weekly, an occasional new rider or a Tour de France fan you’ll find everything you need. Each issue is packed with buying advice and tests of essential cycling gear - everything from bikes to bags! Cycling Plus is the place to find training advice, nutrition secrets and practical tips guaranteed to improve your bicycling. It's also full of inspirational rides, real-life cycling stories and entertaining riding-related features.

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Cycling Plus

Giro d’Italia The Manx Missile’s missive • 28 May 2023

What’s on • The best media, entertainment and events from the cycling world

Go figure • The month in numbers

Reaching for the gods • There’s a climbing feel about this month’s temptations

Can-do altitude • What is it about riding uphill that keeps luring climbing guru Simon Warren back for more?

Paris–Brest–Paris • Cakes, street parties, hallucinations, droopy necks: the world’s oldest big cycle event runs again in 2023

One Shop Stop • Every issue, Cycling Plus gives some love to Britain’s best independent bike shops

Enve MOG • £10,500 Versatile new high-performance gravel superbike from the Utah brand

Street’s ahead • Regional mayors are leading the way in enabling cycling infrastructure

The Peloponnese

The route

NEXT-LEVEL PERFORMANCE • Up to £4,400 and you’re talking serious bike upgrade territory. But can this trio justify your outlay?

Need to know • With rising costs affecting the world over, we sense-check what value looks like in 2023

Bike tech explained • Your quickfire guide to bike jargon

Bikes on test • Say hello to our trio of three-to four-grand road bikes

Merida Scultura Limited • £3,000 Good-value bike that’s ripe for upgrades

Basso Astra 105 Di2 • £3,799 An endurance bike wrought from the origins of the breed

Ridley Helium SRAM Rival eTap AXS • £4,400 What goes up (well) must come down (badly)

Basso Astra 105 Di2 • The Italian manufacturer adds substance to the style

11 Days in August • For the first time, a combined UCI Cycling World Championships will take place in Glasgow this August (3-13). We hear from athletes, coaches and pundits from across the world of cycle sport about a much-anticipated 11 days of action

Road & Para cycling road

Where to watch

Track & Para cycling track

Mountain biking

Epic Journeys • Done Land’s End–John o’Groats and wondering what next ? Serial End to Ender Rob Ainsley (e2e.bike) reveals his favourites

Higher Faster Stronger? • His previous cycling book, The Science of the Tour de France, had an elite focus, but now author James Witts has turned the dial onto himself. Could this back-of-the-pack straggler turn himself into a frontrunner at the Étape?

The lessons of an Everyman • In this exclusive extract from Riding with the Rocketmen, James provides some of the key takeaways from his Étape experience…

UNCHAINED REACTION • We asked Nick Christian to plant himself in front of the telly and binge-watch all eight episodes of Netflix’s new documentary ‘Tour de France: Unchained’. Does the long-anticipated show live up to the considerable hype?

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Ridden & Rated • The UK’s best tests for over 30 years

Giant Contend AR1 • £1,899 Smooth, stable riding made easy

Zipp 858 NSW • £3,570 Zipp’s deepest, fastest wheels

Oakley Encoder Strike • £210 The brand’s futuristic one-piece lens gets ventilation

Time ATAC XC6 • £75 One of the lightest gravel-ready pedals...