
Meg Elliot
Meg is a news writer for Cycling Weekly. In her time around cycling, Meg is a podcast producer and lover of anything that gets her outside, and moving.
From the Welsh-English borderlands, Meg's first taste of cycling was downhill - she's now learning to love the up, and swapping her full-sus for gravel (for the most part!).
Latest articles by Meg Elliot
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‘Come one, come all’ - Meet some of Britain's fastest female hill-climbers
From Frankenstein bikes to post-injury comebacks, meet the women of the British Hill Climb Championships
By Meg Elliot Published
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'We'll keep working on it until we can break records' - Meet the students trying to build the fastest bike ever
A group of London university students are attempting to make the world's fastest bike
By Meg Elliot Published
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Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026 route: Swiss start, Mont Ventoux ascent, and Nice finish
Race to take place from 1-9 August, with first three days in Switzerland
By Adam Becket Last updated
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'It's been pretty flipping tough' - meet the man who spent 24 hours cycling 420 miles around a park for charity
Henry Furniss is on a mission not only to raise money, but to educate about Alzheimer's disease
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'We bring the bike shop to you' – meet the company who will fix your bike on your commute
An overdependence on convenience, or the city's best cycling enterprise, Tyred is promising to transform your commute
By Meg Elliot Published
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I went on my first group ride, and it's changed how I feel about cycling
A solo cyclist through and through, I challenged myself to a lunchtime ride with the Cycling Weekly crew, and now I'm converted
By Meg Elliot Published
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‘We believe that British racing can be exciting again’ - meet the 21-year old trying to revive the grassroots cycling scene
Fresh out of university, Elliott Colyer is aiming to help build the British racing scene - from the ground up
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'We're going to be seen from outer space' - As Rapha and EF Pro Cycling part ways, we look back at their most iconic collaborations
From duck helmets to kaleidoscope kits, we look back at some of the times the iconic pink jerseys were, by race decree, switched-out on the start-line of the Giro d’Italia
By Meg Elliot Published
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Are bike paths doomed? A brief (recent) history of active travel cuts, amid Donald Trump's war on bicycles
In the USA, federal funding for active travel has been slashed, while in the UK, councils simply haven't used the money available
By Meg Elliot Published
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'We're not the enemy, and drivers aren't the enemy either' - meet the cyclist trying to create calm on the roads and end the culture wars
Hama Ndiaye went viral for his calm response to an aggressive driver, and he's encouraging us all to be kinder on the roads, too
By Meg Elliot Published
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How do we create a 'culture of courteousness' within cycling?
As the City of London police proposes higher fines for dangerous cyclists, we ask what could be done to create a safer, and more equitable cycling culture in the capital
By Meg Elliot Published
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'My town really exists' – the political power of the Tour de France
A new paper suggests that the Tour de France could reduce support for the far-right
By Meg Elliot Published
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Israel-Premier Tech uninvited from Italian race the Giro dell'Emilia over 'safety concerns' from pro-Palestine protests
We had to make this decision for reasons of public safety," race organiser Adriano Amici said
By Meg Elliot Published
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World Anti-Doping Agency to ban carbon monoxide inhalation for performance enhancement
The use of the carbon monoxide rebreather tool used for 'diagnostic purposes' will remain legal
By Meg Elliot Published
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'Blood, sweat and tears literally kept the chains moving' – Meet the group of friends who just cycled 106 miles on a six-person tandem bike
The Hoddesdon Round Table group are raising money for The Brain Tumour Charity through their odd cycling adventure
By Meg Elliot Published
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'A hard one to swallow' – British time trial hope Erin Boothman 'gutted' after unclipping from pedal and narrowly missing out on World Championships medal
18 year-old says a 'turn of bad luck' hampered her shot at the podium
By Meg Elliot Published
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Cycling might help prevent the onset of dementia, new study finds
The brains of nearly half a million people were studied by researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and the University of Sydney
By Meg Elliot Published
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'Who'd have thought that a middle aged guy with a pink hat banging on about the history of London would do so well' - meet Johno Verity, London's cycling historian
From Victorian "Bodysnatchers" to London's oldest coffee shop, Verity is changing the way we see the city, on two wheels
By Meg Elliot Published
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'This is the one thing in the U23 category that I care about' - Sweden's Jakob Söderqvist makes history as world champion in under-23 men's time trial at World Championships
The Swede finished over a minute ahead of Nate Pringle and Frenchman Maxime Decomble
By Meg Elliot Published
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'A nice circle, closing' - cross-country mountain biking's greatest Nino Schurter bids farewell
The former Olympic champion ended his career on home soil in Switzerland
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‘It's 40,000 millimetres long, or thereabouts’ - how to race Ned Boulting up the ‘Mûr de Ned’ this October
Ned Boulting’s London Hill Climb, and the mysterious sign that inspired it
By Meg Elliot Published
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'It’s going to be spectacular' - America's biggest bike race to return after a ten-year hiatus
The Philadelphia Cycling Classic will set off on 30 August 2026
By Meg Elliot Published
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How to watch the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships: Everything you need to live stream the Cross Country Olympic races
With the Cross-Country action coming up this week, here's all the information on broadcasters and live streams so you can watch MTB Worlds online and on TV.
By Meg Elliot Published
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‘In a short time trial like this you can’t make any mistakes’ - Filippo Ganna takes victory in nail-biting Vuelta a España stage 18 TT as Jonas Vingegaard clings onto the overall
The Ineos Grenadiers rider wins by less than a second in his team's third win of the race
By Meg Elliot Published
