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Cycling Through The Ages: Your 50s and beyond…

| Blog, Cycling Plus, Features | no responses | 18/04/2013 09:00am

In the last of our series on maximising your riding whatever your age we look at cycling into your 50s and beyond…

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Cycling Through The Ages: Your 40s!

| Blog, Cycling Plus, Features | no responses | 17/04/2013 09:00am

They say that life begins at 40 (I’m still waiting…). Certainly for more and more of us cycling starts when we hit the big 4-0, here’s how to make the most of it…

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Cycling through the ages: Your 30s

| Blog, Cycling Plus, Features | no responses | 16/04/2013 09:00am

Are you old enough to remember Metal Mickey and Spangles? The read on if you want to make the most of cycling in your 30s!

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Cycling through the ages: Your 20s

| Blog, Cycling Plus, Features | no responses | 15/04/2013 14:09pm

One of the best things about road cycling is that age is no barrier to taking part. Over the next few days we’ll take a look at what you should be doing to get the most from your cycling however old you are. We kick off with something for those of you lucky to enough to have been born after 1984…

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Dave Lloyd – Still Riding Hard!

| Blog, Cycling Plus, Features | no responses | 26/03/2013 09:13am

We sent Rick Robson out North Wales to see if he could keep up with former pro-turned-coach Dave Lloyd. He came back tired but with a brilliant cycling route in Wales.

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Cooking Up A Team!

| Blog, Cycling Plus, Features | no responses | 21/03/2013 12:30pm

When we put a call out for a reader to join Team Specialized Cycling Plus on May’s Rat Race Road Trip we only expected a tiny number of you to get in touch. It’s a pretty daunting challenge – 400 miles between London and Edinburgh in just two days really isn’t for the faint-hearted. We were surprised, then, when more than 50 of you applied!

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The Cycle Network

| Blog, Cycling Plus, Features | no responses | 12/03/2013 19:28pm

Strava is the GPS app that can transform your riding, turn every climb into a race and looks set to change the face of cycling, says John Whitney

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Are you our missing ingredient?

| Blog, Cycling Plus, Features | no responses | 15/01/2013 11:28am

May the 3rd 2013 marks the start of one of the most ambitious and toughest sportives the UK has ever seen: the Rat Race Road Trip. After starting from Tower Bridge in London, riders will then have the simple to task of riding to… Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. That’s 400 miles. Oh, and they’ve got to do it in either just four or two days!

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Festive food frolics…

| Blog, Cycling Plus, Features | no responses | 17/12/2012 18:12pm

A bike isn’t just for Christmas… But at this time of year getting out and riding can certainly be a tasty experience says Andy Ward. Join him on a foodie-fuelled festive frolic…

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Cross purposes!

| Blog, Cycling Plus, Features, Know How | no responses | 08/10/2012 09:00am

In lots of ways, a cyclocross bike makes the perfect bike-to-work purchase.  Comfortable and stable, with clearance for mudguards, sensible gearing, high volume tyres and drop handlebars, it will serve you well on the daily commute and the odd blast on a local bridleway. If you are one of the many riders who have taken advantage of the scheme and plumped for a ‘crosser, have you considered unlocking its true potential? Have you thought of entering a race? After doing just that with mixed results, Cycling Plus doctor Andy Ward decided he needed to hone his cyclocross skills. Rapha, organisers of the Super Cross series, gave him a chance to do just that…

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