With Ghent-Wevelgem tomorrow we look back 54 years to the only British winner of this classic race, Barry Hoban, in an extract...

A rainy day in Spain 60 years ago, a hilly circuit in San Sebastian, hours of struggle reduced to two men and...

Approaching the tenth anniversary of the death of a respected champion, Chris Sidwells looks back at the highs and lows of Claude...

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...

New cyclists maybe don’t know Les West, a top British rider in the 1960s and ‘70s who raced mostly in the UK....

King of six-day racing when six-day racing really mattered, Patrick Sercu talks about his team mate, rival and great friend, Eddy Merckx. 

The De Vlaemincks are Flemish cycling icons, cyclo-cross world champions, Roger once and Eric seven times. Roger won Paris-Roubaix four times, as...

Imagine riding the Tour de France funded only by unemployment benefits and whatever prize money you can win? An unlikely circumstance? It...

Pure climbers are one of the most glorious sights of cycling. They fly where others force, they are untethered, untameable - wild. ...

With 66 days to the first cobbled classic of 2025, Chris Sidwells looks at the history of Het Nieuwsblad, the race that...

Today we’re going Italian, back to a long-gone race, a two-man team time trial classic that had some amazing winners.

This Viking track bike was ridden to victory in the 1963 world pursuit championships by a British legend.

Flanders, less than half of a small country, has a huge place in cycling. The best Flemish cyclists are often called Lions...

A dry Paris-Roubaix batters everyone, but rain makes it much harder. The heavens opened in 1994 and created mayhem, but produced a...

The story of an extraordinary British race with an extraordinary British winner. Rain lashes the bleak Pennine moors, dark clouds smother the...

With the Ghent Six-Day, or Zesdaagse Vlaandren-Gent as it’s called now, in a week here’s a quick skip through the history of...

The announcement by Sir Chris Hoy of his terminal cancer diagnosis has rocked cycling and the wider sports world to its foundation....

Madonna del Ghisallo is the name of the chapel at the summit of the Passo del Ghisallo, one of the landmarks of...

Three men have now achieved cycling’s Triple Crown. Eddy Merckx (1974), Stephen Roche (1987) and Tadej Pogačar (2024). Combining Grand Tour victory...