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'My downstairs loo features a couple of pictures of me racing. I look ridiculous' - Dr Hutch wonders if TT helmets have ruined cycling photography
The UCI's new rule, banning TT helmets from road racing, couldn't have come soon enough for some people
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The stress-free way to deal with a major technical issue on your bike, is to ignore it
When Dr Hutch clattered through a massive pothole, he didn't dare check his rim. He figured he was better off not knowing
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If you had any talent people would get offended if you didn't make the most of it
Dr Hutch was regularly told that he was wasting his time if he didn't try road racing
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Some riders joined us on the road, they'd clearly been sent by God just to annoy my friend Bernard
Four riders good. Eight riders very very bad, says the Doc
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Jeremy Vine has had enough of the online abuse and threats, and you can't blame him for that
Sadly no drivers watched the videos and thought 'Oh my gosh! I did just that the other day, and that poor rider must have been terrified!'
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'The better it is the less there is to talk about' - the impossible task of the post-ride chat
Dr Hutch fails the post-ride family interview every time
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Being a pro cyclist was sanctioned selfishness, but now I have to go to birthday parties
Cycling Weekly's columnist, Dr Hutch, is out of excuses to get out of bad social events now he doesn't have to train as much
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Motor racing drivers take a test, so why not pro cyclists?
Points could be up for grabs for knocking riders off bikes, soaking your manager in energy drinks and dodging TV cameras, imagines CW's columnist
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Dr Hutch: 'You can only have so many painful body parts'
Racing for 24 hours is more torment than Zen-like trance
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Dr Hutch: Carbohydrate intake and mid-race nutrition is a sport in itself
I once ate a gel that tasted of slugs compacted into a wrapper. The pro peloton has trained itself to eat like Homer Simpson
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Dr Hutch: How to prepare for disastrous underperformance at a bike race
It’s all rather easy when you know how...
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Dr Hutch: ‘Henri Desgrange came up with the perfect 21st-century bike race... in 1903’
Shorter stages be damned. What the Tour needs is more suffering
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Dr Hutch: ‘I once thought ketones were so good they’d rendered training obsolete’
The deeper your pockets, the better the placebo effect
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I know very little about football, but I know that there is no sport in the world that you can’t analyse to the benefit of the player, says Dr Hutch
Dave Brailsford is poised to enter the world of Premier League Football, and the Doc believes he will fit right in
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Dr Hutch: Cycling is not a good sport for wearing glasses
It’s hard to race a bike in non-tinted glasses without looking like a Swiss cyclo-tourist from 1985 who has stumbled onto the course by accident, muses Cycling Weekly's columnist
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Dr Hutch: Cyclists are basically a group of giant Lycra wasps cruising round the countryside looking for sugar
Cycling Weekly's columnist looks into the fairground mirror of cyclists' relationship with food and decides that, on reflection, he's OK with the weirdness
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Faster: The cycling podcast from Dr Hutch
Dr Hutch is back with season two of his podcast Faster as he speaks to the worlds best riders about how they go.... well, faster.
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Dr Hutch: When did bikes start to cost half the UK average wage?
Modern bikes are better, Hutch admits. But are they five times better?
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Dr Hutch: Cyclists are not intrinsically tougher than footballers, but sympathy is in much shorter supply
Cycling is still the brutal, unrefined punch-up that it’s always been, muses Hutch
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Dr Hutch: Are smartwatches now ruling our lives?
Cycling Weekly's columnist discuses the pleasures and pitfalls of owning something tracking every movement he makes in a day
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Dr Hutch: Back pain is your body's way of telling you to cycle more
Cycling Weekly's columnist explains why he decided on curing his back pain by getting on his bike even more
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Dr Hutch: Why women were the pioneers of bike racing
If it wasn't for female riders, we'd all still be falling off our Penny Farthings
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Dr Hutch: Reverse ‘proper cyclist’ snobbery
All ‘proper’ cyclists are used to being taunted by civilians, says the Doc, but what happens when one turns out to be better than you?
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Dr Hutch column: How to minimise the blow to your ego when you get dropped
It's as much about timing as any other cycling skill, muses the Doc
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Dr Hutch: The sensitive subject of saddle sores
Doctor Hutch considers an often overlooked ailment with a real sting in the tail - saddle sores
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Dr Hutch: Should you wear a helmet? It is entirely up to you
Should you wear a helmet? It is entirely up to you, says the Doc
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Dr Hutch: 'Don’t give up mate, you can do it'
Pulling out of a marathon has its compensations, the Doc finds, when even a cynic like Bernard acknowledges his cycling ability... almost
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Dr Hutch: I can't afford the only greatness I have to be overlooked
The Doc finds that demonstrating his cycling superiority outside the context of a race is not as easy as he had hoped
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Dr. Hutch: Why I won't be watching any more cyclists' helmet camera videos
Avoid the new genre of helmet-cam disaster movies, says the Doc. They may record reality but they have an unnerving power to distort your sense of risk for good
