Innehållsförteckning för November 6, 2025 från Cycling Weekly

I’m guessing most Cycling Weekly readers have experienced that gut-punch, sickening feeling of having a bike stolen. A truly awful moment, leaving you full of vengeful thoughts and questions about how you could have prevented it from happening in the first place. It happened to a friend of mine recently after he’d spent months lovingly building up a dream bike. He’d only ridden it half a dozen times then, late one evening, it was gone in the blink of an eye. The thieves got into his garage in seconds and were gone just as quickly, ignoring all his power tools and leaving everything else untouched. We suspect they knew what they were looking for. Since then he’s gone on a mission to turn his garage into a mini Fort Knox,…

Despite racing 80 days during the 2025 season – only 29 riders in the entire world raced more than him – and completing both the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España, British rider James Shaw is without a confirmed team for 2026. For the past four years, climber domestique Shaw has raced for EF Education-EasyPost, joining the American team after three years riding for Continental and ProTour teams after his release from Lotto-Soudal in 2018. In his time with EF he has established himself as a reliable helper and someone capable of riding for his own results; he’s finished on the GC podium of two smaller races, and was fifth in a Pyrenean mountain stage of the 2023 Tour de France. But Shaw, 29, finds himself in the unwanted position…

Former Spanish national champion Oier Lazkano has pleaded innocence after he was provisionally suspended by the UCI over ‘unexplained abnormalities’ in his biological passport. Last week he was revealed to have been suspended, and his then team, Red Bull, announced that he was no longer riding for them. The abnormalities occurred during Lazkano’s time at Movistar, 2022-2024, according to the UCI; it was also when his most notable results occurred, including victory at the Clásica Jaén Paraiso Interior in 2024, and at the 2023 Spanish National Championships. Lazkano joined Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe at the beginning of 2025, but had not raced for the team since Paris-Roubaix in April. Last week, his former team Movistar stated “with absolute firmness” their “unwavering commitment to a clean and transparent sport”. Over the weekend, Lazkano…

Bäckstedt fractures wrist Zoe Bäckstedt has said her helmet saved her life after a training crash left her with a fractured hand and wrist. The under-23 cyclo-cross world champion will now be forced to delay her CX season, which was due to begin this month. Cyclist.cc on Instagram “Bro thinks he’s Remco” 101 The age of Frenchman Charles Coste, who was the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medallist when he died last week. He won gold in the team pursuit at the 1948 London Olympics, plus the 1949 Grand Prix des Nations. Strava adds device attribution After dropping its legal action against Garmin, Strava introduced new device attribution to all activities last week. The type of device your ride was recording on now shows up against the activity, beneath the…

If you were to stand in the middle of Derbyshire, you’d be the farthest you could get from the sea in the UK – about 100km or 62 miles. In such places it’s possible to forget you live on an island. But the sea surrounds us and, taking into account our 6,289 scattered islands, we have about 31,000km (19,300 miles) of coastline. Along that epic shore lie regions as diverse in culture as they are in land formations, ecologies and dialects. From the remote, weather-beaten north of Scotland to the azure seascapes of Cornwall, Britain is ringed by one of the longest, most varied coastlines in Europe. This year, three cyclists set out to cycle the perimeter of Britain – a journey of more than 4,000 miles – all propelled…

How closely do you track and monitor your training data? I am always focused on the numbers, so that I can see how I’m doing and do some benchmarking. Of course, I also check how I am feeling, but the data is a mainstay in my training routine. Normally, when I’m feeling good, that’s reflected in the figures, but sometimes when I’m not feeling great, the data show that I am in good health, reassuring me that I’m actually OK. How has your coach most influenced your progress? I’ve had my coach [Maxime Latourte] for eight years and every year my performance has improved. We haven’t changed my routine significantly, but he says it’s important to introduce a novel thing each year. So this year, I have been doing more…

Yes Adam Becketnews editor You might be surprised to learn that Chris Froome still hasn’t officially retired. The 40-year-old, currently recovering from a serious training crash which could have killed him, could still be a pro rider next year. It’s strange. If you’re new to the sport of cycling – and by new I mean since 2020 – it must be pretty incongruous for a lot of attention to be paid to a rider finishing 55th at the Sibiu Cycling Tour, or 68th at the Tour of Poland. Yet this is the greatest Grand Tour rider of his generation, the last man to hold all three Grand Tour titles at the same time, a man who was dominant at the Tour de France for three years. No one could criticise…

As Bunting, Hall and Weaver rode their winding routes round Britain’s coastline, others were tackling it by sea. In July, Polish Olympian Sebastian Szubski became the fastest person to circumnavigate Britain by kayak, in a time of 37 days and six hours. To break the 40-day record, Szubski had to learn to paddle on the sea in a surf ski – the longest type of kayak – within seven months, and how to navigate some of the world’s most dangerous tidal races, while proceeding at record-breaking speed. Meanwhile, 26-year old Jazz Turner became the first woman, and first disabled sailor, to circumnavigate the UK and Ireland on her boat named ‘FEAR’ (‘Forget Everything and Rise’). The sailor lives with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a genetic condition affecting connective tissue, and was…

Rating Worn in this year’s Grand Tours by the Arkéa-B&B Hotels, Lotto-Dstny and Cofidis teams, the R Aero helmet was designed for aerodynamic efficiency in a range of positions. To achieve this, Ekoï created a number of 3D models and subjected them to CFD and windtunnel testing at different speeds and yaw angles. Ultimately this led to a design that uses a teardrop profile with one large vent at the centre in high-pressure zones and an internal channel that lowers the pressure of the air flow as a result of the Venturi effect. Design and shape aside, it uses EPS foam internally with a polycarbonate shell on the outside. Other structural features include occipital adjustments at the rear, a Boa dial for retention, adjustable dividers and straps, and Fidlock magnetic…

By the time you read this I’ll be safely on holiday, near Calpe in Spain – a location that is well known for its gentle autumn climate, quiet roads, challenging climbs and pro team training camps. You’d imagine that I planned this as a cycling holiday. You’d be 100% wrong. The plan was not to even take a bike, but instead to get away for a few days with Mrs. Doc and enjoy a little warmth and sunlight before coming home to the grey grind of a British winter. It was a good summer for bike riders in the UK this year, and I was happy to take a week off. It’s not as if I have a lot of target races between now and Christmas. This plan fell apart…

I picked up two silver medals at the 2025 UCI Track World Champs last month, my first Worlds with Great Britain. Standing on the podium in the team’s colours was a huge moment, something I’ve dreamed about since I first started racing. Winning medals at this level is never easy, and the event in Chile reminded me just how fine the margins are at the very top. After placing runners-up in the team sprint, the individual sprint started off amazingly; I out-qualified my big rival Harrie Lavreysen for the first time at Worlds by nearly a whole 10th of a second. I raced my way well through the rounds, matching up against Australian rival and ex-teammate Leigh Hoffman. Beating him in two straight rides put me in prime position for…

It is with a bittersweet feeling that 18-year-old Carys Lloyd will pass on her title as the youngest rider on the WorldTour next year. Born on New Year’s Eve in 2006, the Movistar rider balanced her first season as a pro with her final year of A-levels, scoring top grades as well as two UCI podium finishes. An influx of juniors means four riders will be younger than her next year, including her team-mate Paula Ostiz, the junior world champion. “Paula is only actually 12 days younger than me,” Lloyd said, adding that it’s “sweet and a bit sad” to no longer be the baby of the WorldTour. “I liked having the ‘I’m the youngest’ thing,” she told Cycling Weekly at the London 3 Day. Reflecting on her debut pro…

Having cycled for 60 years, I’ve found that in recent years, the unwritten rule of cycling etiquette has diminished almost to the point of non-existence. The time of acknowledging your fellow cyclists with cheery bonhomie as they reeled you in has long gone. However, I see from this year’s cycling diary entry that there are still a few riders – even among the young – who’ll pass the time of day: “tho’ cold and showery, I put an hour in on the bike, and trundled around some of it with another cyclist on a road bike who chatted – that’s a first.” I still enjoy my cycling and will keep turning the cranks but the era when we talked to each other seems to have long since passed.…

It’s only autumn but Joe Barr has just returned from his first meaningful training ride for the 2026 season. As he wheels his machine up the drive, dressed immaculately from top to toe in his own BarrUltra kit, he looks fresh enough that he could be preparing to leave, rather than coming back from a 200km ride. “I was just enjoying it today,” he tells wife Jill as she films him for a social media reel. “I have a good level right now,” he adds. “I feel like 200K days are not that big an effort anymore.” If his fresh face and complete lack of any apparent ache or pain as he strolls up the drive weren’t impressive enough, how about this: Joe Barr is 66 years old. Today’s epic…

I recently received news of a rider who, new to clipless pedals, did what most clipless newbies do at some point and fell over at a set of traffic lights. What most of us never had to endure was this particular rider’s older sister. She checked out the glorious spot and the nearby shops, and secured CCTV footage from some security cameras that showed the incident from three angles, with sound. She edited these into a video that she sent to every contact in her brother’s phone. She took the best still images and had them printed on coasters. And she’s already ordered the family Christmas cards.…