Cycling Weekly

Published by TI Media Limited Cycling Weekly is the UK's only weekly special interest magazine focusing on the cycling market. It is the best source of breaking international and UK news, race reportage, reliable fitness advice, trustworthy product reviews and inspirational features for British cyclists. Always a great read, Cycling Weekly inspires you to ride your bike more!

Welcome to 2026

In Focus

Rayner Foundation reveals 2026 roster • 29 young British riders will receive funding from the scheme to race abroad

Pickering starts 2026 with Jayco • Young climber looking to emulate the 1990s star riders who set him on his path to the pro ranks

IS A MOVE TO INEOS GRENADIERS BENEFICIAL FOR OSCAR ONLEY?

Holden begins a new chapter • Former national time trial champ Lizzie Holden reconsiders her goals after retiring from racing

QUIZ OF THE YEAR 2025 • Are you a peloton professor, or a buffoon in the bunch? Find out with our fiendish quiz

FRED WRIGHTFIRST DAY OF SCHOOL VIBES

Big Ride Challenge in 2026

Does riding a longer stem increase the risk of crashing?

The marvel of bike lights

Cycling Weekly

ALL GRAFT NO GLORY • No salaries, no cameras, no guarantees – yet they train and race like their lives depend on it. Chris Marshall-Bell meets five full-time riders laying it on the line for the sheer love of it

THE UCI LADDER – DIVISIONS EXPLAINED

PEDALLING FOR THE PUB • After riding a tandem the length of Britain stopping only by pubs, Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham argue that bikes and beer do mix – and that pedal-pushers need to keep pint-pullers in business

OUR FAVOURITE LEJOG PUBS

2026 MILEAGE CHART

Pedal stack height • How does it ‘stack up’ against the other marginal gains in cycling?

SCRIBE ÉLAN ULTRAS £1,499

RIBBLE ALLGRIT TI X £4,000 • Titanium gravel bike that’s perfectly at home on the ‘Great British Lane’

Q36.5 Dottore Termino jacket £450 • Peerless performance but at a price

PRO RIDERS WINTER TH GUIDE • Winter riding doesn’t have to be survival mode. Pro riders who know how to thrive through the colder months share their best hacks, habits and kit tweaks with Chris Marshall-Bell

‘DON’T PLACE TOO MUCH FAITH IN THE FORECAST’

WATT WORKS FORME ARCHIE RYAN • The Irish EF Education-EasyPost rider talks breakfast innovation, high-torque training and the mental challenges of racing

2025 BRITISH CHAMPIONS AND FASTEST RIDES • Who was crowned with a title last year, and who rode the fastest?

GREAT INVENTIONS OF CYCLING1968 - ALTITUDE

“We knew how to true a wheel. If you’ve been cycling less than a decade, this is a wild concept” • Will all cycling skills become historical curiosities, wonders the Doc

Dear Doc

Maurice Burton

MOTOBÉCANE TEAM BIKE • Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke’s 1981 race machine