Long Reads

Imagine you get picked for the cobbled classics but you live in South Yorkshire, how do you train? You get creative, that’s...

After witnessing Geraint Thomas’s Tour de France debut in 2007, Chris Sidwells knew he had to find out more. This is what...

Chris has a look at what pro riders of yesteryear did in the off-season and finds that, except the very best, they...

A cycling legend if ever there was one, Rik Van Looy rarely gives interviews, but he gave one to Chris Sidwells a...

A top classics rider, Eddy Planckaert retired in 1991. He was around for a while then disappeared, leaving only rumours. In 2006...

Stage 14 of the 2025 Tour de France finishes in Superbagnères, a place the race doesn’t visit often, but when it does...