No salaries, no cameras, no guarantees – yet they train and race like their lives depend on it. Chris Marshall-Bell meets five full-time riders laying it on the line for the sheer love of it

Downhill racing is all about setting the fastest time against the clock. It’s a game of speed, where the rider standing on the top step of the podium is separated from the others by margins of a secon

After riding a tandem the length of Britain stopping only by pubs, Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham argue that bikes and beer do mix – and that pedal-pushers need to keep pint-pullers in business

Will all cycling skills become historical curiosities, wonders the Doc

Riding a raft of litre bikes shows up the RR’s qualities on a new track

TT Legend John McGuinness MBE in MCN every week