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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"

The return of the all-rounder: how riders are becoming more versatile

Could we see a return of riders targetting races outside their specialities?

Dr Hutch: Bikes are not things to just be looked at

Bikes, no matter how noteworthy, were never meant to be museum pieces, muses the Doc

Dr Hutch: You know you're a cyclist when...

True cyclists don’t need anything as flimsy as a love of cycling to bolster their self-identity, say Dr Hutch

Katie Archibald column: Eat when you can

“I myself enjoy the ‘eat when you can, not when you want to’ rule so much that I apply it to sleep as well”

Dr Hutch: Who cares how many sprockets you’ve got

"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"

Katie Archibald column: 'Couples only ever break up around the World Championships'

“My theory is that couples only ever break up or get together around the World Championships or the Olympic Games”

Dr Hutch: The Yates twins are a science experiment waiting to happen

Simon and Adam Yates need to be recognised for their honesty in admitting that there are two of them, says Dr Hutch

Katie Archibald column: When team-mates turn into rivals

“Manon and I are sharing a room and plotting the downfall of what were last month our team-mates but this month our rivals”

Dr Hutch: Time to align cycling's rules with its ethics

Cycling’s questionable morality is nothing new but now’s the time to align its rules with its ethics, says Dr Hutch

Katie Archibald column: 'There are no bad foods, just bad choices'

“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”

Dr Hutch: Hardriders events are strictly for the soft-headed

Hardriders events are strictly for the soft-headed, says the Doc, who has suffered through a few himself

Katie Archibald column: 'I felt like I was in a nightclub where I’d lost my friends and drunk nine coffees'

Katie Archibald has a few nerves before the 2018 Track Cycling World Championships - but it's nothing her brain can't handle

Dr Hutch: Why do you ride a bike?

Dr Hutch ponders the only question that truly matters: why do you ride a bike?

If we want clean sport then someone’s got to pay – but it’s not Bradley Wiggins or Team Sky

Away from the headlines about Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins the DCMS report highlights the woeful lack of funding for anti-doping organisations.

Should Strade Bianche be cycling’s sixth Monument?

It may lack history, but the Italian one-day race is serving up some of the most spectacular racing all season

Katie Archibald column: If someone offers you dinner, be grateful for it

“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”

Dr Hutch: The chaos and carnage of reliability trials

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?

Katie Archibald column: 'You look terrifying' and other cycling firsts

Dr Hutch: How exactly do you know whether you are under- or over-training?

Katie Archibald column: My brother's track success

“I’d applauded this result with the kind of patronising affection only a younger sibling can provide. I made it about me”

Dr Hutch: Time to make a horrifying admission

Katie Archibald column: Accepting an MBE is not an easy decision

“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”

Katie Archibald column: Sleep is the most important form of recovery, recovery is the only way you improve

"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: Can we have proper cycling scandals back now, please?

Dr Hutch bemoans the fact that today's cycling scandals are just too damn scientific