Great inventions of cycling 1887: winter cycling

Visiting Coventry in 1934, a centre of the motor industry, writer JB Priestley mused that, “The modern motor car represents an astonishing feat of human ingenuity. If we were one half so clever in the

Whose team could change four tyres the faster? Ken Tyrrell and McLaren’s Teddy Mayer had £600 riding on it. The former’s crew – a gun guy at each corner, a jack man at either end – was said to have go

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Britain’s wild places are under pressure – but cycling gives us rare access to their beauty and fragility. Sophie Pavelle explores what’s at stake from the saddle

O n a recent trip to Boston, I ...

In the early 1890s a young Victor Goddet was working at the Vélodrome de l’Est, Paris. Every day a twenty-something rider arrived and every day Goddet studiously checked his pass. One day the rider qu