Indholdsfortegnelse for September 23, 2021 i Cycling Weekly

There were high emotions as Ellen van Dijk claimed her second time trial World Championship win, eight years after her first. The Dutchwoman burst into tears as defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten crossed the line in third place. She said: “I didn’t know I would become so emotional but this has been a dream for so long to get that title again. This year it always felt good but I knew Marlen Reusser [who was second] was so strong; she beat me in every time trial in the last few months. I knew it was good but I had no idea if it would be good enough.” Van Dijk had started over an hour earlier than most of the favourites and admitted that she wondered if the wind would change…

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Lacking the resources to hire a team of surveyors, we took matters into our own hands and without resorting to using an app, decided to calculate the ‘precise’ angle of the road using two sticks, a spirit level and some good old-fashioned maths. Your teachers always told you maths might come in handy! Choosing a stretch in the centre of the steepest section, while skidding around in our cleats struggling to simply stand upright, we arranged our poles, getting them at a right angle, and scientifically deduced the ‘exact’ pitch of the slope to be a whopping 35.48%. Ouch!…

The breakaway of the pro race rides through the streets of Valkenburg. This appears to have been taken around the midpoint of the race when the break had grown to nine riders. It was a hot day in the Netherlands and the riders were faced with a fearsome parcours that included 26 ascents of the Cauberg, the climb that is most famous for being the centrepoint of the Amstel Gold Race. Belgian Briek Schotte would go on to win the race from this break – though we’re not confident we can identify him here. He was a tough, tenacious rider who had a good sprint and so he was happy to tow Frenchman Apo Lazaridès to the line. He beat him by one second in the end. However, Schotte’s thunder…

Ethan Vernon put in a solid ride to come seventh in the U23 World Championship time trial. He was 43 seconds down on winner Johan Price-Pejtersen from Denmark. The British rider, who won a stage of the Tour de l’Avenir this summer, crashed at the Tour of Britain earlier this month and had been suffering with a knee injury in the week leading up to the race. He said: “Even in my warm-up this morning, my knee was hurting and I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. But then the crowds and other pain took my mind off it. “I didn’t do the best power I could have done but I think after a week off the bike, it was respectable.” Vernon rode the new Lotus Hope time trial…

One of Britain’s top teams could be forced to close if it doesn’t find more sponsors to cover the increased costs from Covid-19. Canyon-dhb-Sungod has been one of the UK’s most successful teams in recent years and just wrapped up the Tour of Britain – the biggest race of the year for domestic teams – winning both the King of the Mountains and the sprints jerseys. But with increased costs from racing in Europe, manager Tim Elverson has said he could struggle to fund the team in 2022. “Covid has brought in larger costs, travel is much, much more expensive, you have to put riders in hotels for longer because you have to bubble them. So the costs for a one-day race have nearly doubled,” he said. “What I thought…

As others have said, Lefevere doesn’t want Merckx’s record beaten. I would find it disrespectful of him not to take Cav to the TdF. He can also take Fabio Jakobsen – maybe one sprint stage will be better for one than the other. Stop trying to play out in public what should be dealt with in private and get on with it rather than prevaricating! Cass Witt I’m surprised, surely they can use Cav as traction for better sponsorship deals for the team? There will be a lot of hype surrounding him and the record. I can understand him favouring the so-called better rider, but Cav did pretty well for him this year. Rob Dawson Keep him. Take him to the TdF, get that one stage win and the publicity…

“T here’s always a bigger fish.” That’s what the ancient proverb says, and just when I thought I’d ridden the steepest road in Britain and put the matter to bed once and for all, up popped another hideous incline to further move the goalposts and redefine suffering. When I first tackled Hardknott Pass I assumed nothing could ever beat that, but then a few years after, I discovered the road up to Abdon Burf in the Shropshire Hills and my perception of torture was changed. A while later, the utterly horrendous Cowlyd in North Wales found its way onto my radar and again the slate was wiped clean and a new standard was set. For a while there, I thought I’d settled it. I’d evaluated the merits of all contenders…

In hindsight, it’s quite amusing that the frame I had designed as part of a project to investigate female-specific geometry is called A-nor-male. Regardless, my Werking Anormale is a custom frame – the geometry and layup was based upon a detailed bike-fit and riding interview, and it’s neither male-specific nor femalespecific, it’s gender-neutral; I expect you’re already anticipating the conclusion of the feature, along the lines of, ‘is women-specific geometry outdated?’ I was fitted for and reviewed the bike back in 2018; at the time I noted that one of the flaws in the philosophy of custom geometry is that a rider’s ideal bike-fit changes over time. If everything is going in the right direction, we become stronger and more flexible over time; sometimes in life we become weaker, more…

CYCLO-CROSS SAT-SUN, 18-19 SEPTEMBER National Trophy Series round one (Moorways Leisure Centre, Derby): Elite Men: 1. Lewis Askey (Equipe Cycliste Groupama-FDJ) 1:02.17; 2. A. van den Broeck (VDB Cycling Team) +0.23; 3. I. Field (Spectra Wiggle p/b Vitus) +0.29; 4. R. McGuire (unattached) +0.35; 5. T. Barnes (Schamel p/b Kloster Kitchen) +0.43; 6. J. Coukham (Prologue RT) st. Elite Women: 1. Amira Mellor (Spectra Wiggle p/b Vitus) 49.20; 2. A. Flynn (Edinburgh RC) +0.12; 3. A. Manley (Montezuma’s RT) +0.23; 4. A. Baker (Team Empella Cyclo-cross.com) +0.30; 5. X. Crees (Spectra Wiggle p/b Vitus) +0.31; 6. I. Strathdee (VeloRevolution-WPCycles) +1.42. Under-23 Men: 1. Lewis Askey (Equipe Cycliste Groupama-FDJ); 2. A. Van den Broeck; 3. R. McGuire. Under-23 Women: 1. Anna Flynn (Edinburgh RC); 2. A. Manley; 3. A. Baker. Junior…

Magazine designers will be wincing looking at that cover of Alf Engers. Doing cut-outs of black and white print photography was a basic enterprise back in the 1960s (although it still required a fair amount of skill) and moving spokes were too much for some Tippex and a scalpel. Even now, when working with a full Adobe Suite of software on powerful Apple Macs, a designer will still sigh heavily if they have to cut out an image of a bike with all its spokes. Thankfully the ever-stylish Alf Engers with his Aviator shades was still able to pull it off. The feat that landed him the cover was going under 52 minutes for 25 miles for a new competition record. While that time wouldn’t trouble the top 10 in…

Ahead of Friday’s under-23 World Championship road race, Lewis Askey said he was in the form of his life after winning the opening round of the National Trophy Cyclo-Cross Series. The 20-year-old from Cannock, Staffordshire, has already signed for the Groupama-FDJ WorldTour team for next year and showed why with an impressive ride in Derby. Askey took the lead on the opening lap around the fast turns at Moorways Leisure Centre before pulling out a 30-second gap and holding it steady throughout the race. “I set off with the front guys, got a bit of a gap and I knew the long straights would be good for me to put down the power,” said Askey after winning by 23 seconds. “I didn’t want people sitting in my draft so I…

JAKE STEWART This weekend I’ll be realising a dream It’s 4 July, 2009. An individual TT in the streets of Monaco. A nine-year-old sits down with his father to watch the Grand Départ of the Tour de France. Until this point I hadn’t taken much interest in cycling, but something was different on that Saturday afternoon. The speed, the complexity, the utter strength of these machines mesmerised me. From that afternoon on, I was hooked. I couldn’t wait to get home from school to watch the day’s highlights on ITV4. Better yet, I couldn’t wait for the six-week summer holiday to watch the stages in full. A nine-year-old was beginning to realise a dream, the summer holidays were filled with the Tour de France and bike riding. When I wasn’t…

5 HARDKNOTT PASS, CUMBRIA Everyone has heard of this Lakeland monster, the star of the Fred Whitton Sportive and arguably the first road that springs to mind when anyone asks which is the hardest you have ridden. It’s long, it’s viciously steep right from the start and the 30% stretch towards the top has likely forced more people to unclip and walk than any other piece of tarmac in the land. It’s the blueprint for the perfect 10/10 climb. 4 ROSEDALE CHIMNEY, YORKSHIRE Some say there are tougher climbs in the North York Moors but I disagree. The 1-in-3 stretch in the middle of Rosedale Chimney has to be seen to be believed and this is why this road became a legend and not its peers. Having tortured riders in the Milk…

Cornwall’s first elite road team, Saint Piran, are riding Lapierre bikes this season – and that’s the women’s team as well as the men’s UCI Continental team that rode in the Tour of Britain this year – a proud moment for them as the race’s Grand Départ was held in the Duchy this year. The green is a stock colour for the Aircode DRS 7.0, which team leader Steve Lampier joked to CW photographer Andy Jones is unlucky for superstitious Cornishmen and women. However, as he pointed out, fortunately in the light it can turn blue, purple and silver and shimmers with its metallic flake. Andy shot the bike at the Ryedale Grasscrete Grand Prix on 22 August, which Lampier was using as a warmup race for the Tour of…

Lake CX403 road shoes £425 Weight 315g (Size 39.5) The CX race shoes are designed for racing. As such, they have a narrower toe box and tighter heel than is found on the company’s ‘competition’ shoes, and overall volume is lower than that of its ‘sport’ shoes. This creates a more strapped-in feel that is suited to high cadence and high-power riding. The outsole comes with a standard three-hole cleat mount, but there is also the option to request a four-hole Speedplay/Wahoo pedal-specific pattern which you can use without adapters. These aren’t particularly lightweight shoes – mine came in at 315g per shoe, which is 630g a pair in a size 39.5 (wide). That’s without cleats and with insoles. Competitors are closer to 400g but Lake is more about fit…