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Cycling UK’s round-up of recent campaigning news
June is always a busy month in the world of cycling, with the energy from Bike Week at the start of the month powering us through. Of course, this June has been very different from usual, and that is in no small measure due to the tectonic…
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Veteran adventurer Nick Sanders has become the first person to cycle around the world on an e-bike. Here’s how his 19,000-mile journey unfolded
There are two basic mistakes you can make with any cycling adventure: not starting and not going all the way. Everything…
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The Netherlands is ideal for a mixed ability tour, as Cass Gilbert found out with his partner, five-year-old son, and non-cycling sister.
Over a decade ago, my sister and I spent five days cycling around the Isle of Anglesey on a borrowed tandem recumbent trike. As short as the trip was, it…
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E-cargo bikes are cleaner, greener, and often quicker than vans. Antony De Heveningham, transport consultant and one of the directors of Cargodale, considers their uses
It was April 2020, as the UK’s first lockdown was starting, I had an excited phone call from my friend…
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Cycling UK is working with national trails officers and landowners to create a fully rideable North Downs Way. Cycling UK Senior Campaigns and Communications officer Sam Jones led the inaugural ride.
Breathing raggedly, sweat in my eyes, I hurriedly snap a shot of my companions as they…
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It was not until we were in Tuscany, cycling amongst the vines on the crushed white limestone of a strada bianca, that I realised the double meaning of this tour’s appellation.
These white roads have been used by generations of Tuscan farmers, tending their vineyards and to transport their…
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Which magazine best suits your cycling interests? Cycle editor Dan Joyce flips the pages of the titles still in print to help you decide
Websites, chat forums, YouTube… There are more windows into the cycling world than just magazines these days. The competition for eyeballs and advertising…
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Last summer, Jo Gibson and three companions circumnavigated the Mont Blanc massif by mountain bike. There were ups and downs…
"We’re riding the Tour du Mont Blanc" I told the table of mountain bikers over lunch with our skills instructor. "It’s a 120-mile loop around the Mont Blanc…
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A child trailer can tackle more than the trip to the nursery. Ed and Marion Shoote used theirs for a trip through Slovakia’s Tatra Mountains
Where: Poland and Slovakia. Start/finish: Zakopane, southern Poland. Distance: 240km.
In a forest feathered with autumn colour,…
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If hills, headwinds, or pannier hauling are too hard, your bike needs lower gears. Cycle magazine’s technical editor Richard Hallett assesses your options
The virtues of a really low bottom gear ratio have long been appreciated by touring cyclists in particular, and cyclists wanting an…
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