Below: ‘The Roubaix finish line is different to other races. You can’t be straight on because there are still riders doing laps of the track. I’d only arrived about four minutes before winner Pauline

A lot can happen in just four seconds. A dropped object falls 78.4m. The Earth travels 120km. A top sprinter runs 40m. A Grand Tour turns on its head. When the Tour de France Femmes kicked off under c

I’ve been thinking about this climb for months. If I can just get up it, I’ll feel I’ve broken the back of this brutal bike leg. But talking of broken backs, mine is straining. Like fudge doughnuts, s

Decades after growing apart, Simon Fellows and his brothers reunite to breathe new life into old bonds on a 1,000-mile ride across France

It was not on the climb of the Madonna del Ghisallo, as in 1946, 47, 48 and 49, that Fausto Coppi won his fifth Tour of Lombardy. It was in a sprint, on the boards of the Vigorelli, beating a bunch of

I have a terrible habit of signing up for races I’m wholly unsuitable for. First there was the fatbike challenge in the Arctic Circle in midwinter – a chilly affair that saw me trudging through the sn