Cycling Active

Best cycling water bottle: how to find the perfect bidon for you

We've rounded up our pick of the best cycling water bottles to keep your fluid intake up, as well as guiding to find your ideal hydration station.

Olympics on a shoestring - Great Britain at Atlanta 1996

Seven of the best cycling-related pop songs

Ageing rocker Matt Lamy gets in the groove with seven great cycling-related tunes — just don’t expect too much from the last 20 years to be included

Brompton: the perfect commuting machine?

Moulton track bike is mini 'Old faithful'

TV presenter Matt Barbet on discovering cycling, and his dream bike

TV's Matt Barbet chats to Cycling Active magazine's Rebecca Charlton

The changing face of bike mechanics

The best cycling windbreaker jackets

We take a look at the 15 best cycling windbreaker jackets

Sir Chris Hoy’s new kids’ bikes

Expanded range of children's bikes from HOY including 24-inch wheel road bike and light mountain bike

Bury St Edmunds Rugby Club ride to remember those killed in plane crash

What better way to commemorate the 40th anniversary of a tragedy than with a charity bike ride?

Ford Tourneo Connect: classy bike lugger

We take a look at Ford's new Tourneo Connect to see how it copes with lugging a bike or two

Nail it: Climbing technique

Nail it! Correct cycling technique and some grit will get you all the way to the top of steep hills

Bournville ride: Chocolate, chips & cake

Hannah Holden discovers rural tranquility and no end of places to refuel south of Britain’s second-largest city

Leith Hill Octopus

Andy Lulham undertakes the challenge of traversing all eight of arduous ascents of Leith Hill in Surrey

The Pedaller: Cycling around Portmeirion in North Wales

Portmeirion in north Wales was the setting for late-Sixties TV show The Prisoner, in which a British agent leaves his job and — in very mysterious circumstances ­— finds himself stripped of identity and under perpetual surveillance in a strange seaside community. CA’s freelance am-dram luvvie Matt Lamy pays a visit and slips straight into character — in the lead role, naturally

Classic Corse: Riding on Corsica

It’s as though the roads of Corsica were made especially for cyclists. Dramatic coastline routes, azure seas, sweeping bends, rugged mountains and chestnut forests: the island offers a continent’s worth of riding variety, discovers John Walsh

Hay-on-Wye ride

Positioned on the border between England and Wales, Hay-on-Wye waits expectantly for cyclists to explore

Rides: Imber, Wiltshire – the forbidden village

Cut off behind army prohibition lines in the stark landscape of Salisbury Plain lies a derelict village redolent of childhood adventures

7 of the best crash hats

When you just want to stay safe on the daily commute, full-on roadie lids can seem like overkill. Here's seven quirky crash-hats that will protect your head without screaming 'speed freak'

Rides: The Scottish Highlands, a Speyside story

Janet Coulson explores a friendly corner of the Cairngorms that is bristling with great riding and superb scenery — not to mention some fine whisky in the form of the Speyside Malts

7 of the best handlebar bags

Phone, wallet, keys, iPad — they’re the accoutrements necessaire of modern life, but how best to carry them on your bike? One handy solution is a nifty little handlebar bag. Here are seven of the best

WIN A LUXURY CYCLING HOLIDAY IN NOTTINGHAM

Win! A cycling holiday for two in France

What friends are for

When Colin Knight’s wife Bev died of cancer his bike buddy Mike Jones knew what would help him deal with his grief. Aged 73 and 60 respectively they started cycle touring

Great Manchester Cycle: Entries now open

Entries for 2013 Great Manchester Cycle (June 30) now open - choose 13, 26 or 52 mile routes