Katie Archibald column: Why achieving a winning smile can be harder than claiming a medal
"In my haste for a sparkling smile I didn’t read the instructions, and I accidentally bleached my gums"
"In my haste for a sparkling smile I didn’t read the instructions, and I accidentally bleached my gums"
Could we see a return of riders targetting races outside their specialities?
Bikes, no matter how noteworthy, were never meant to be museum pieces, muses the Doc
True cyclists don’t need anything as flimsy as a love of cycling to bolster their self-identity, say Dr Hutch
“I myself enjoy the ‘eat when you can, not when you want to’ rule so much that I apply it to sleep as well”
"Like most bike riders, he thinks the God-given number of gears for a bicycle was the number pertaining when he got his first grown-up bike"
“My theory is that couples only ever break up or get together around the World Championships or the Olympic Games”
Simon and Adam Yates need to be recognised for their honesty in admitting that there are two of them, says Dr Hutch
“Manon and I are sharing a room and plotting the downfall of what were last month our team-mates but this month our rivals”
Cycling’s questionable morality is nothing new but now’s the time to align its rules with its ethics, says Dr Hutch
“On top of that, getting the day to day right is far more difficult because it’s boring and requires the least sexy of the sporting virtues: patience and consistency”
Hardriders events are strictly for the soft-headed, says the Doc, who has suffered through a few himself
Katie Archibald has a few nerves before the 2018 Track Cycling World Championships - but it's nothing her brain can't handle
Dr Hutch ponders the only question that truly matters: why do you ride a bike?
Away from the headlines about Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins the DCMS report highlights the woeful lack of funding for anti-doping organisations.
It may lack history, but the Italian one-day race is serving up some of the most spectacular racing all season
“When I want to meet up with my mother I’ll text her and say, ‘Want to cook me dinner tonight?’ And she continually puts up with it — it’s outrageous”
It’s the “trial” bit you need to worry about, not the “reliability” bit, says Dr Hutch. But just what are they? And should you be riding one?
“I’d applauded this result with the kind of patronising affection only a younger sibling can provide. I made it about me”
“I said it wasn’t a medal from a palace that I dream of when I raced my bike, that it felt like a social rating and a hierarchy that I didn’t want to involve myself in”
"That voice in your head can rarely be trusted. Like that time it said I’d already eaten enough and didn’t need to see the dessert menu"
Dr Hutch bemoans the fact that today's cycling scandals are just too damn scientific