Cycling Plus

Cycling Plus is the manual for the modern road cyclist. Whether you're cycling weekly, an occasional new rider or a Tour de France fan you’ll find everything you need. Each issue is packed with buying advice and tests of essential cycling gear - everything from bikes to bags! Cycling Plus is the place to find training advice, nutrition secrets and practical tips guaranteed to improve your bicycling. It's also full of inspirational rides, real-life cycling stories and entertaining riding-related features.

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Turkish delight • Simon Warren attempts a new climb that’s up there with the mightiest in the World Tour

Orbea Denna M20i • £7,299 An e-gravel bike with a brilliant new custom control system

2025 gravel calendar • The best UK off-road events to enter this year

Newmen Streem Climbing Vonoa wheels • Lighter and much, much cheaper than their £5,480 Lightweight Obermayer EVO rivals

PEDAL-O-METER • WHAT’S SPINNING ALONG AT SPEED AND WHAT’S CRASHING OUT THIS MONTH?

‘The UCI should ban TT bikes’ • It’s fun to go fast, says Simon von Bromley, but time-trial bikes are too dangerous and expensive

Vittoria Corsa Wide Rim Optimised tyres • From £69.99 Speed and safety combine

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE • Britain’s best-selling cycling magazine will come through your letterbox as if by magic every month if you become a subscriber. And it’s much cheaper than buying it in the shops. It’s a win-win!

A QUIET PLACE • Markus Stitz journeys 1,500km through the unforgettable Gaspé peninsula in Canada’s east

Bargain Upgrades • Avoid wasting money with these smart spends that’ll transform your riding

Worn out? • Heart-rate variability, blood glucose levels, sweat rate… the list of metrics you can measure in cycling is exhaustive and exhausting. It begs the question, when it comes to technology, can you have too much of a good thing?

SPRING-FRESH TECH • This year’s Spring Classics provided a host of hot tech to sink our teeth into, from pro tweaks to new products galore. Here are some of the highlights…

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Ridden & Rated • The UK’s best tests for over 30 years

Sweet Protection Fluxer MIPS • £179 A valid alternative to the lightweight helmet hegemony

A NEW BREED OF GRAVEL • Disparaging voices have called gravel bikes ‘just 1990s mountain bikes with drop bars’ for years. But do these latest MTB-inspired rides offer something unique?

DT Swiss GRC 1400 Dicut 30 wheelset • £1,949.98 All the gravel wheel you could ever want

Boardman SLR 9.2 Carbon • £2,500 Speed and sensibility in a value-loaded package

NORDIC TREK • Niclas Haslum joins Olympic skiing champion Aksel Lund Svindal on a figure-of-eight loop around Oslo to see what the city has to offer

Training zone • Expert advice on maximising your cycling performance

Boost your ride • Performance Q&A The big cycling questions answered by our team of expert coaches, nutritionists and riders

2 IS THIS BREATHING SENSOR REALLY THE BIGGEST DEVELOPMENT IN PERFORMANCE WEARABLES SINCE THE HEART-RATE MONITOR?

3 IS IT TRUE THAT CYCLING CAN HELP WARD OFF DEMENTIA?

Get round Unbound • 2024 finisher Amelia Mitchell explains how to tackle the prestigious US gravel event

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LIGHT RACE BIKES • Climb-conquering designs from Look and Orbea tested head to head

Overpaying to view? • Discovery+’s cycling coverage is inexcusably poor considering the 343% price hike, says Liam Cahill