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Science was telling us wider tyres were faster, we refuted this because they looked so slow
Doctor Hutch gets all misty eyed over rock hard, 19mm wide racing tyres - they just looked so Goddamn fast!
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'I've known occasions where a star's bike has attracted more attention than they did' – how to race against your heroes with Dr Hutch
Staying cool when a big name turns up at your local race is mandatory.
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'If you look hard enough, there are always things to complain about' – Dr Hutch on the delights of cycling on the coldest days
The Doc's friend Bernard lives for stoicism bragging rights
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'You've heard of junk miles? Well I've invented junk intensity' – Dr Hutch on why you should ditch training and just go for a ride
Half-arsed training isn't even fooling Dr Hutch himself
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'When I get in from a ride I now have to carry out an electronic device charging audit' – Dr Hutch on the tech perils of modern cycling
Weighing up the mixed blessing of cycling gadgets
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'The Tour de France throws a match into the box of fireworks and lets the whole lot go off at once' – Dr Hutch on the madness of cycling's biggest race
The Doc hails the dizzying insanity of sport's most dazzling spectacle
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'When I look back at what has been going through my mind, I find the tapes are missing' – the joys of cycling on your own
Riding alone is a blissfully thought-free zone for this rider
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'It's a dull stretch of tarmac and I've spent 170 hours of my life on it' - Dr Hutch has tackled the same stretch of road more times than he'd like
The Doc takes a ride down memory lane - for the 2,000th time...
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'I’m the cycling equivalent of the reserve goalkeeper for Plymouth Argyle' - How Dr Hutch explains why he's never ridden the Tour
The Tour de France is still the only race that counts for ‘them’, says Dr Hutch
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The UCI's latest rule changes are designed to make us all a little more old-fashioned
Cycling's governing body likes nothing more than to measure things. And then decide they're banned.
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'Even dropping dead on the spot would have seemed overly aggressive on my part' - Dr Hutch on the trials and tribulations of ultra cycling
Saintly helpers make ultra-distance time trials tough to quit
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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?
